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To: curiosity; LucyT; Fred Nerks

“LOL. So you’re saying a 6-7 month pregnant American college coed would take a voyage to Kenya by freighter? For what?

Do we even have any reason to believe that a freighter calling at Hawaii would ever have any reason to stop in Kenya? For what?”


It would serve you much better to stick to your bookkeeping job instead of sticking your little shallow “head” into issue that you have absolutely no clues about!

In the sixties I worked for a Swedish shipping company, the “Johnson Line” = Rederiaktiobolaget “Nordstjernen,” the vessel MS PERU. A cargo ship with 12 passangers accomodation. We would start out in Stockholm then CPH, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerpern, Southampton, then over the Atlantic to many U.S. ports and down to the Panama Canal, up the West Coast on Central America to S.F. Or other trips down to South American ports, loading/unloading merchant cargo and passengers would embark/disembark in different ports!

Our shipping line had vessels going to the far east and all over the world. American, Danish, Norwegian, German, Dutch, Belgium, Italian, Greek and many other countries shipping lines were doing exactly the same, cargo/passenger ships crossing all the oceans, including Hawaii, before it became economical feasible to afford air travel as we know it today!!

I said, I would try to educate you, so before you put your foot in your mouth further, you better STFU before you make a larger clown out of yourself as you in the past has done here as a true FINO. Click on the link “Johnson Line” see below!!!

http://www.timetableimages.com/maritime/images/list.htm


360 posted on 05/12/2010 3:53:09 PM PDT by danamco (")
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To: danamco
In the sixties I worked for a Swedish shipping company, the “Johnson Line” = Rederiaktiobolaget “Nordstjernen,” the vessel MS PERU. A cargo ship with 12 passangers accomodation. We would start out in Stockholm then CPH, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerpern, Southampton, then over the Atlantic to many U.S. ports and down to the Panama Canal, up the West Coast on Central America to S.F. Or other trips down to South American ports, loading/unloading merchant cargo and passengers would embark/disembark in different ports!

Fine. But it didn't call in either Hawaii or Africa. I'd be very surprised if there was a ship that called at both places.

Even if you could find one, I seriously doubt it was a direct route. It probably would have called a dozens of ports in Asia before reaching Kenya. How long would a trip like that have taken? 2-3 months, minimum.

374 posted on 05/12/2010 4:20:26 PM PDT by curiosity
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