Word: sten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When stocky, blue-eyed Sten Schroder was 24, he saw a real Viking ship in a museum in Bygdoy; from that moment Sten knew what course he must sail. Last year, when Sten was a 37-year-old lamp factory worker in Stockholm, he saw his chance. A big sports exposition was to be held in Stockholm's deer park and the committee wanted to build a gondola to take visitors round the lake. Sten went to the committee meeting, pleaded history's cause and sold them on the idea of a Viking craft instead. The committee granted...
Friends pitched in to help Sten chop down sturdy pines. A maritime museum director offered to research the design and an artist went to work carving a dragon's head. By June of last year, after three months' work, Sten's craft, the Lusty Snake, was ready for its maiden voyage-a trip to Tullgarn Castle to congratulate King Gustaf V on his 91st birthday...
That, however, was just a shakedown cruise. This year Sten had hoped to sail to the U.S.,* but he found it hard to raise the money. He settled for Rotterdam. Three weeks ago, with a crew of 15 stalwart young Swedish tram conductors, miners, plumbers, bakers and clerks to man the oars, the 80-foot Lusty Snake set off across the Baltic for the Kiel Canal...
Last week high winds lashed at the sandbanks along the German coast. The winds brought bits of planking from the Lusty Snake and the drowned bodies of Sten Schroder, Viking, and one of his crew. No survivors have been found...