Hello Erling and Maurice, Thank you for the excellent information and the time and effort taken in responding. It is much appreciated. I now am beginning to understand more about the Transportflotte Speer and its role in shipping materials for Organisation Todt. My fathers memoir mentions shipping c...

Hello from the UK, My father was an escape Dutchman, sailing as an undercover escaper on board a ship, The Nord 13, from Aarhus in Denmark to Oslo Norway. He was moored next to other ships when the Filipstad explosion happened on 19th December 1943. He left a very detailed description of this event ...