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Lars Helmer
Second Engineer Senior, Deck Engineer
MS Kungsholm 1969-1973
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Lars Helmer
Growing up as maybe a black sheep in my family I was so school tired that I quit classes before the finals of junior high. And therefore I did not get a “Realexamen” diploma [from 1968 an abolished Swedish degree of good standing]. Instead I went to sea and worked on cargo ships for four months, until one day my mind told me “I can’t go on like this for the rest of my life…!”.... |
Many thanks to Hasse Gustafsson and Tommy Stark
for contributing this story.
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More than 250 web pages developed and maintained by Lars Hemingstam ©1998-2023
Hasse Gustafsson and Tommy Stark have interviewed crew members and contributed many of the stories.
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