Koldevin Lind Kristiansen Røsnes

GEDCOM Note

1) Koldevin og Signe Charlotte var tvillinger, men Signe døde i 1898. 2) Koldevin var krigsseiler under 2. verdenskrig. På en av turene med M/T Charles Racine ble han og resten av mannskapet utsatt for et torpedoangrep. Fra siden www.warsailors.com finner vi følgende skildring:
"Charles Racine left the convoy on March 1 on orders from the Commodore and continued alone, following Admiralty routings. She was torpedoed northeast of Anguilla (23 10N 60 28W) on March 9 at 23:10 ship's time by the Italian submarine Giuseppe Finzi (Giudice). The torpedo hit on the port side, forward of the engine room; water gushed in and the engines stopped. Shortly thereafter another torpedo struck, also on the port side. The radio operator sent out an SOS with their position. After the crew had gotten safely away in 4 lifeboats they observed 2 more torpedoes hitting the ship, this time on the starboard side, and later in the night they heard another 2 explosions followed by flames.3 of the boats holding 34 men stayed together but the 4th could not be seen in the dark. They remained in the vicinity until daylight, but when the captain rowed back to the ship that morning to look for the 4th boat it was nowhere to be seen, so sail was set for Puerto Rico. They were picked up in the morning of March 12 by USS Moffet which searched for the other lifeboat all day, before heading for San Juan, Puerto Rico where the survivors were landed on the 13th. They travelled to New York on March 22, with arrival on the 27th. The following day they received the news that the 7 in the missing lifeboat (incl. the 1st mate) had been picked up by an Argentinian steamer en route to Trinidad and landed there."
Kilde: http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/charlesracine.html