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Late October 1939: At this point, there was a substantial number of Scandinavian ships and sailors in Kirkwall that were not originally destined to be there. Some had been diverted with or without Royal Navy prize crews onboard. Others had ended up there without their ships, shipwrecked, like the Lorentz W. Hansen crew. Kirkwall wasContinue reading “Repatriation”