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Johan Elton Pedersen
- Date of birth
- July 7, 1913
- Date of death
- November 1958
- Parents
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Norway
- Birthplace
- Kristiansund
- Place of living
- Freiveien 16, Kristiansund
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- Service
- Rank
- Trimmer
- Maritime inquiries 1939 - 1945
- Other
- Participant in WW2
Londonregisteret:
Registernummer under krigen: London: 35796, N.Y: 17648/33475
Gift med (jf. London-kort): Agnes Pedersen.
Johan Elton Pedersen var mønstret på skipet M/T Koll da det ble torpedert 6 april 1942. Minnehallen i Stavern skriver:
"M/T Koll var på reise for å slutte seg til konvoi i Halifax. Den 6. april 1942 ble hun torpedert av tysk U-571 (Korvettenkaptitän Helmut Möhlmann) i posisjon 34.39N og 68.25W, rett øst av Cape Hatteras. M/T Koll eksploderte og sank, mens brennende gasolin løp ut over havet under en voldsom røyk- og varmeutvikling. 1. maskinist Einar Gulbrandsen og motormann Johannes Tjøne omkom i eksplosjonen. Samme dag, og ikke langt unna, ble rederiets Kollskegg torpedert. Fem livbåter fra to skip av samme rederi, med til sammen nesten 80 mann, drev om på havet øst for Hatteras. En av båtene ble observert samme dag og reddet. 7. april blåste det opp til kuling, og sleperne mellom livbåtene brakk. 11 mann fra Koll mistet kontakt med de øvrige. Fire dager senere ble de tatt opp av portugisisk båt og landsatt i Lisboa 25. april. De to andre båtene fra Koll kom inn i vekslende vær, fra stille til storm. Alle frøs og hadde smerter i benene. Den 14. april døde stuert Sigurd Askeland. Den 15. april ble den ene båten reddet av sveitsisk skip, ST. Cergue og ført til New York. Den 16. april ble folkene i den andre båten tatt opp av portugisisk skip og landsatt i Philadelpia. Seks mann omkom."
Participated in the following historical events 1939-1945
- Invasjonen i Normandie (Operasjon Neptun, juni 1944)*Signed on D/S Lysland
Sources
Engagements (13)
- Ships
- D/S Inviken
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 8/8/1945 - Signed off
- Harbour: River Tyne
Date: 1/3/1946
- Ships
- D/S Facto
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 4/26/1945 - Signed off
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 5/25/1945
- Ships
- M/T Vardefjell
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 7/14/1944 - Signed off
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 2/13/1945
- Ships
- D/S Lysland
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newhaven
Date: 4/27/1944 - Signed off
- Harbour: Swansea, Wales, Uk
Date: 6/20/1944
- Ships
- D/S Jernfjeld
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 10/15/1943 - Signed off
- Harbour: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Date: 4/3/1944
- Ships
- D/S Siak
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 5/18/1943 - Signed off
- Harbour: London, England
Date: 8/27/1943
- Ships
- D/S Heire
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 9/18/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: Blyth, Northumberland, England
Date: 4/23/1943
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 6/3/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: Manchester, England
Date: 9/5/1942
- Ships
- D/S Varøy
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 6/10/1941 - Signed off
- Harbour: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Skottland
Date: 12/9/1941
- Ships
- D/S Lab
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 10/12/1940 - Signed off
- Harbour: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, England
Date: 5/5/1941
- Ships
- D/S Mari
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Skottland
Date: 8/15/1940 - Signed off
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 10/5/1940
- Ships
- D/S Bjerka
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Kristiansund
Date: 12/30/1939 - Signed off
- Harbour: Preston, Lancashire, England
Date: 7/15/1940
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Medals (1)
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