The information on registered seafarers is not in all cases complete. As new sources are studied, information on engagements and medals etc. will be added to some of the already registered seafarers.
Gunnar Jacobsen
- Date of birth
- January 26, 1918
- Date of death
- April 10, 2011
- Parents
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Norway
- Birthplace
- Bølingshavn
- Place of living
- Hvaler
- County
- Østfold
- Service
- Maritime inquiries 1939 - 1945
- Other
- Participant in WW2Prisoner during WW2
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Registernummer under krigen: London 17917, NY 28509.
Var matros ombord på M/S VINNI som ble kapret av tysk raider KOMET 7.desember 1940. Krigsfange og kom fri.
Styrmannsskole i Sydney, N.S.W. Australia fra juli til desember 1942
Bosatte seg i Sydney, N.S.W. Australia etter krigen og ble australsk statsborger.
Attest av 1. styrmann Aslak Thorvald Jensen 9. januar 1941:
"Herr Gunnar Jacobsen har fart med m/s "Vinni" fra den blev bygget 1/7 1937 til skibet blev senket av tysk hjelpekrysser i Syd Stillehav den 7. desember 1940. Han har tjenestegjort som lettmatros og matros. Han har hele tiden vist sig aa vere en bra sjømann. Han er villig og paalitelig i sitt arbeide og er absolutt edruelig.
Under skibets kapring, senking efterfølgende fangeophold paa tysk raider og ophold paa relativ øde Sydhavsøy utviste hr. Jacobsen ro og besindighet og i det hele optraadte som en loyal sjømann".
Sources
Engagements (4)
- Ships
- D/S Agnes
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Third mate
- Signed on
- Harbour: Port Kembla
Date: 8/9/1945 - Signed off
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 1/16/1946
- Ships
- D/S Agnes
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Third mate
- Signed on
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 12/11/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 4/3/1945
- Ships
- M/S Skagerak
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 2/17/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 7/20/1942
- Ships
- M/S Vinni
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: Fredrikstad
Date: 7/3/1937 - Signed off
- Harbour: Kapret
Date: 12/7/1940
Voyages
Places of Service (0)
Medals (3)
Going through new source material in order to document the war sailors and their history is an ongoing and extensive effort, and there exist no complete register over decorations awarded. Infomation about medals will therefore be registered gradually and be based on different source materials. The war sailors were awarded medals both during and after the war. Do you want to read more about decorations, then please study this page: Decorations
Images (4)
Documents (14)
- M/S Vinni engagement contract, signed on 19 June 1937.
- Certificate issued to Gunnar.
- This document indicates that Gunnar was a member of the crew of M/S Vinni that was sunk by a German raider in the Pacific Ocean on 7 December 1940.
- Certificate issued to Gunnar on 22 April 1988.
- Certificate of Naturalization as an Australian Citizen, 8 December 1958.
- Red Cross message sent by Gunnar to his father in Norway on 14 January 1944 indicating he was safe and well.
- Gunnar's Sjøfartsbok and Mannskapets fart page listing his voyages as a seaman on a number of Norwegian ships.
- Declaration not to re-enter the war, 14 January 1941. Document signed by the crew of M/S Vinni but was ultimately ignored by them.
- Fishing licence issued to Gunnar at Hvaler in 1936.
- Temporary Mate's Certificate issued to Gunnar in Sydney, Australia on 2 January 1943.
- Certificate presented to Gunnar after completing a course in A. A. Gunnery in October 1942.
- Notification of Decree of the Royal Norwegian Government mobilising Gunnar for service in the Norwegian Merchant Fleet.
- Certificate issued to Gunnar on 3. October 1979.
- Gunnar Jacobsen - a brief biography. By Kristian Jacobsen.