# The Flying Enterprise – Man vs. the Sea 60 years ago

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-flying-enterprise-man-vs-the-sea-60-years-ago/6650>\
**Category:** Marine Weather\
**Created:** [December 23, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-flying-enterprise-man-vs-the-sea-60-years-ago/6650 "2011-12-23T08:33:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![fredwx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/fredwx/32/3873_2.png) [@fredwx](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/fredwx)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-flying-enterprise-man-vs-the-sea-60-years-ago/6650/1 "2011-12-23T08:33:31Z")

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Sixty years ago this Christmas Week, began an incredible sea story involving a WWII era cargo vessel named the [I]Flying Enterprise [/I]and her captain, Kurt Carlsen.

[http://oceanweatherservices.com/blog1/2011/12/23/the-flying-enterprise-–-man-vs-the-sea/](http://oceanweatherservices.com/blog1/2011/12/23/the-flying-enterprise-%e2%80%93-man-vs-the-sea/)

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**Author:** ![Bloodyshitcakes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/bloodyshitcakes/32/181_2.png) [@Bloodyshitcakes](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bloodyshitcakes)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-flying-enterprise-man-vs-the-sea-60-years-ago/6650/2 "2011-12-23T09:19:25Z")

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Great article. Thanks for sharing.

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**Author:** ![rshrew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/rshrew/32/107_2.png) [@rshrew](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/rshrew)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/the-flying-enterprise-man-vs-the-sea-60-years-ago/6650/3 "2011-12-23T09:47:55Z")

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I read a good book on this can’t remember the name of it though.