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.
John Kristiansen Bakkmyr
- Date of birth
- August 22, 1911
- Date of death
- May 26, 1994
- Parents
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- Norway
- Birthplace
- Aure
- County
- Møre og Romsdal
- Service
- Maritime inquiries 1939 - 1945
- Other
- Participant in WW2
Ex gratia-arkivet:
Registernummer under krigen: London 11205, NY 11705.
Bakkmyr fortsatte å seile i den norske handelsflåten etter krigen og var fortsatt til sjøs i 1967.
"Handelsflåten i krig 1939-1945". Bind 4, s. 465-466:
"John Bakkmyr opplevde to traumatiske [krigsforlis] der mange liv gikk tapt. Først da M/S Moldanger ble senket sommeren 1942, hvorpå han tilbrakte sju uker på en flåte i storm, stille og stekende sol, med ni mann presset sammen på to flåter på tolv kvadratmeter i 48 døgn. Den andre skjedde et år senere, ved senkningen av M/S Høegh Silverdawn, da han tilbrakte tolv døgn på flåte.
For resten av livet bar Bakkmyr alltid i seg det lange flåteoppholdet under stekende sol - og tørsten: John Bakkmyr måtte alltid forvisse seg om at han hadde vann i huset. Enten måtte springen renne eller så måtte han høre vannet dryppet på et kasserollelokk som lå i vasken. Bakkmyr døde i 1994, 83 år gammel".
John Kristiansen Bakkmyr var bror til Erling Kristiansen Bakkmyr.
Sources
Døde 1951-2017, digitalarkivet.no
RA/S-3545/G/Gg
"Handelsflåten i krig 1939-1945. Krigsseiler: krig, hjemkomst, oppgjør". Bind 4. Av Guri Hjeltnes, Oslo 1997
"Krigskorset og St. Olavsmedaljen med ekegren", redigert av Erik Gjems-Onstad, Oslo 1995, s. 196.
Trøndelag Krigsseilerforenings arkiv, Sverresborg Trøndelag Folkemuseum
RA/S-3545/G/Gi/L0004
Engagements (14)
- Ships
- M/T Marina
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 5/25/1945 - Signed off
- Harbour: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1/8/1946
- Ships
- M/S Banaderos
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 11/11/1944 - Signed off
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 5/11/1945
- Ships
- D/S Ørnefjell
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 10/3/1944 - Signed off
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 10/30/1944
- Ships
- M/T Skotaas
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 3/10/1944 - Signed off
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 9/26/1944
- Ships
- M/S Lookout
- Nationality
- Panama
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 1943 - Signed off
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 11/18/1943
- Ships
- M/S Høegh Silverdawn
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 4/1/1943 - Signed off
- Harbour: Beskutt av skip/ubåt/land
Date: 6/15/1943
- Ships
- M/T Sommerstad
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 1/4/1943 - Signed off
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 3/25/1943
- Ships
- M/S Fernbrook
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 12/9/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 12/16/1942
- Ships
- M/S Tamerlane
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 9/16/1942 - Signed off
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 12/9/1942
- Ships
- M/S Moldanger
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Able seaman
- Signed on
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 7/29/1941 - Signed off
- Harbour: Torpedert
Date: 6/27/1942
- Ships
- M/T Herbrand
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 4/15/1941 - Signed off
- Harbour: New York, NY, USA
Date: 7/29/1941
- Ships
- M/S Blankaholm
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Date: 2/14/1941 - Signed off
- Harbour: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 4/8/1941
- Ships
- M/S Tijuca
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Unkown
- Signed on
- Harbour: Unkown
Date: 9/9/1940 - Signed off
- Harbour: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Date: 2/14/1941
- Ships
- M/T Alcides
- Nationality
- Norway
- Rank
- Boatswain
- Signed on
- Harbour: Preston, Lancashire, England
Date: 7/28/1938 - Signed off
- Harbour: Sydney
Date: 8/31/1940
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Medals (3)
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