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Leandros -> RE: Rookie II - Saving MacArthur (10/13/2020 3:36:06 PM)
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To me it is quite interesting to note the many Norwegian ships incorporated into the game. An example from this day's turn is M/S (Motor Ship) Gausdal - Leif Hoegh Shipowners.
She was operated by Nortraship, the Norwegian Shipowners' organisation that planned and coordinated (even before the war) that the 1.000-ship Norwegian merchant fleet should join the Allies, rather than the other side, if/when Norway was pulled into the war. In a way, a flagrant breach of neutrality.
It was sunk in Namlea harbour during this day's turn by Japanese cruisers and destroyers. Coincidentally, on this date, October 12th 1942, she was actually in Australian waters, she was laid up in Fremantle between September 29th and October 19th.
http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/gausdal.html
I grew up in a street only a couple of hundred yards from where Leif Hoegh, the shipowner, lived after the war and went to the same primary school as his son, Morten.
Incidentally, there were several Norwegian war-time shipowners who built their small mansions in that street after the war. My father sailed with one of them, Brusgaard and Kiosterud. That ship, M/T Hamlet, was torpedoed in the Caribbean in 1942.
Fred
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