Word: bendiksen
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...said: "I will now shut up. I cannot give any details." There were plenty of questions to be answered and plenty of details to be filled in by Freudenberg, skipper of the pride of the Israeli passenger fleet, the seven-month-old, $20 million Shalom, and by Captain Kristian Bendiksen, 54, of the 12,723-ton Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. The two ships collided early Thanksgiving morning in heavy fog 17 miles northeast of Barnegat Lightship, off the New Jersey coast...
...Stolt Dagali, it had been sheared in half by the Shalom's bow. The stern section sank almost immediately, taking 19 seamen with it. Left on the bow section were ten men, including Captain Bendiksen...
Still Missing. The first rescue helicopters hovered overhead, dropping flares to light the scene, descended to within 10 ft. of the 20-ft. swells, picked up nine men and 13 bodies, then took Captain Bendiksen and the nine others from the bow section of the Stolt Dagali...
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