Narrow Escape For King Olar
(Rec. 8 p.m.) OSLO, July 27 The Norwegian Royal yacht. Norge, carrying King Olav and his daughter, Princess Astrid, on a tour of northern Norwav. narrowly escaped collision with the German freighter, Bauenfels. in the Arctic Ocean yesterday, the Norwegian news agency reported. About 5.30 a.m. the yacht’s officers on the bridge saw the freighter loom out of the thick fog, the agency’s correspondent aboard the Norge said. They immediately ordered full speed astern and the Bauenfels passed the Norge at a distance of about 100 feet, the CO’-’-ec’^OT'r’—■>♦
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28958, 28 July 1959, Page 13
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