Author Frank Delaney was nine years old when the story of the merchant ship The Flying Enterprise and its captain Kurt Carlsen reverberated around the world in 1952. More than a half-century later, ...

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For more than three days, the North Atlantic seemed to give up to Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crippled Flying Enterprise. The British tug Turmoil plowed homeward through a placid sea, her five-inch ...

PROFILE of Capt. Henrik Kurt Carlsen, master of the freighter the Flying Enterprise, aground on the coast of Cornwall, who held out aboard his disabled and dangerously listing ship for 13 days and ...

A dense fog hung low as the Isbrandtsen Company’s 6,711-ton freighter Flying Enterprise moved away from her pier in Hamburg; her Danish-born master, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, 37, was obliged to conn her ...

Before there was television news there were cinema newsreels – and one of the greatest peacetime stories they ever told was the epic battle to save the Flying Enterprise. It began on a Christmas Day – ...