There is not much I recall from the time of my first year in elementary school, but the ‘Flying Enterprise’ disaster.
Each day, during lunch, my parents listened to the radio news and, during those days, a reporter in an English port was always speaking about the latest developments.
Living far from the seas, I could not really understand what happened, but it was dramatic…
The reporter came in over a short wave radio link with its limited bandwidth and parasitic noise, and he was always very excited.
I also remember following this event on Norwegian radio news, even at the tender age of 8-years old
It was a gripping story that was closely followed in Ålesund, maybe because nearly everybody here had a relation to the sea, being a fishing and sealing town, with a large part of the population being seamen.
PS> The Danish background of Capt. Kurt Carlsen may have been an added factor.