31-397: Flying Enterprise may refer to: SS Flying Enterprise , American ship sunk in 1952 Flying Enterprise (airline) , defunct Danish airline Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flying Enterprise . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
62-529: A 2002 Danish television documentary Det Skæve skib ( English title: The Mystery of Flying Enterprise ). According to this documentary, information regarding the cargo is still (in the year 2002) regarded as confidential and details are not available from the CIA, FIA, Coast Guard and/or US Navy. On the other hand, there appears to have been no secret that the US Atomic Energy Commission
93-440: A court of inquiry which does not go well. Cooper and Heston then go on to investigate the sunken cargo, supposedly high-quality American aircraft engines. The passengers on board Flying Enterprise were Nicolai Bunjakowski, Nina Dannheiser, Maria Duttenhofer, Rolf Kastenholz, Leonore von Klenau, Curt and Elsa Müller and their children Liane and Lothar, and Frederick Niederbrüning. All survived except Bunjakowski, who drowned during
124-545: A depth of 84 metres (276 ft) on the seabed of the western approaches to the English Channel. Bishop recovered artifacts from the site, which went on display for many years to the general public in the Cornish Maritime Museum. Speculations about a shipment of zirconium , intended for use in the first nuclear submarine USS Nautilus (SSN-571) , but registered as pig iron , were discussed in
155-605: A transport in the Army Transportation Service, as USAT General A. W. Greely . Part of this transportation service involved the immigration of displaced persons from Europe to the United States and Australia. Reacquired by the navy 1 March 1950, the ship was assigned to Military Sea Transportation Service under a civilian crew and her designation was changed to USNS General A. W. Greely (T-AP-141). She departed Seattle 5 August and carried troops to
186-533: Is speculation that the cargo also included gold and zirconium . Four days later, on Christmas night, she encountered a storm in the Western Approaches to the English Channel . Afterwards, it was discovered that she had suffered structural damage and a crack was found across the weather deck from a rogue wave . The cargo then shifted. An SOS was issued on 28 December, by which time she
217-766: The Far East in support of the effort to repel Communist expansion in Korea . Operating out of Seattle, during the next nine months she made four round-trip voyages to Japan , Korea, and Okinawa . Returning to Seattle 3 May 1951, she then sailed 24 May for duty in the Atlantic . Operating out of New York, between 10 October 1951 and 22 February 1953 General A. W. Greely completed numerous transatlantic runs to Bremerhaven , Germany, and La Pallice , France. While en route from Bremerhaven in January 1952, she rescued survivors from
248-575: The Flying Enterprise in tow. The tug's mate , Kenneth Dancy, was then transferred to the Flying Enterprise on 4 January, by which time the list had increased to 60 degrees. The ship was taken in tow on 5 January, when she was some 300 nautical miles (560 km) from Falmouth, Cornwall . On 6 January, USS Willard Keith relieved the John W Weeks and the French tug Abeille 25 also joined
279-769: The American Institute of Marine Underwriters. He died on 3 August 2013, aged 88. In addition the ships owners made payments in respect of the bravery of the Turmoil s crew – £750 to Captain Parker, £500 to Dancy and £1,250 to be distributed among the 26 crew; the gifts presented by the US Ambassador Walter Sherman Gifford [REDACTED] Media related to Flying Enterprise (ship) at Wikimedia Commons USS General A. W. Greely (AP-141) USS General A. W. Greely (AP-141)
310-532: The Danish filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen aired a documentary, The Mystery of Flying Enterprise , to commemorate the 50th year of the sinking. Later Bishop worked with US divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler to film the wreck for a 2005 episode of the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives . This became the deepest wreck dived of the 56 episodes made. The wreck now lies resting on her port side in
341-593: The German nuclear energy program was not very advanced. It has been speculated that the zirconium instead came from Philips in Eindhoven , the company that had the first patent on a process to obtain high purity zirconium, and that the buyer was one of the companies intending to bid for a contract with the US Atomic Energy Commission. Hammond Innes fictionalized the story with " The Wreck of
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#1732779751243372-487: The Mary Deare " published in 1956, about a decrepit and drifting freighter found by a salvager. A movie by the same name was made in 1959 and featured Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston . The plot features a salvager (Heston) boarding a drifting freighter with only the first officer onboard trying to run the ship by himself (Cooper). After the ship is finally caught up on some rocks, the two survive but Cooper has to face
403-521: The United States. Departing New York 14 December, she reached Karachi , India, 4 January 1946 and embarked additional returning veterans. She sailed 6 January for the West Coast ; and, steaming via Ceylon, Singapore , and the Philippines , she arrived Seattle, Washington , 2 February. She decommissioned at San Francisco , California, 29 March and was transferred to WSA the same day for use as
434-514: The flotilla. The salvage attempts were criticised as the ship might have been saved by heading for the nearest safe harbour, Cork , rather than Falmouth. A public house in Cork , Ireland is named the "Flying Enterprise" after the ship. In 1960, some $ 210,000 of the $ 800,000-worth of cargo was salvaged from Flying Enterprise by the Italian company Sorima. Under a confidentiality clause in
465-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flying_Enterprise&oldid=932827122 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages SS Flying Enterprise SS Flying Enterprise
496-527: The loss of one life (a male passenger). Captain Carlsen remained on board. After passengers and crew had been evacuated, MV Sherborne was released and continued her voyage to Manchester. By 2 January 1952, the USS John W. Weeks had arrived and relieved the merchant ships . The following day, the tug Turmoil arrived, guided by the searchlights from USS John W Weeks , but found it impossible to take
527-412: The lost shipwreck of Flying Enterprise almost 50 years after she had sunk. Deep wreck diver Leigh Bishop had researched the whereabouts of the sinking and obtained information from British government departments on the wreck's approximate location. His photographs were enough to positively identify the wreck as that of the Flying Enterprise . In 2002 the Danish expedition company No Limit Diving and
558-524: The next day for Fremantle and India , arriving Calcutta , 20 May. After embarking homebound troops, she departed 28 May; steamed via Ceylon and Suez ; and arrived Newport News, Virginia on 22 June. From 28 June to 7 July she sailed to Le Havre , France, where she embarked 3,000 troops before returning to New York, NY on 18 July. Between 28 July and 6 December she completed two round-trip voyages from New York to Calcutta, transporting occupation troops, mail, and cargo; and returning home-bound veterans to
589-579: The rescue effort. The tow line parted at 01:30 on 10 January, with Flying Enterprise 31 nautical miles (57 km) south of The Lizard and 41 nautical miles (76 km) from Falmouth. Later that day, the Turmoil was joined by the Trinity House vessel Satellite and the tugs Dexterous and Englishman . Carlsen and Dancy finally abandoned ship at 15:22 hrs and were picked up by Turmoil . The Flying Enterprise capsized and sank, stern first, at 16:10 hrs to whistle, siren and foghorn salutes from
620-627: The rescue. An exceptionally rare violin by Vincenzo Rugeri was lost to the sea when the ship sank. Captain Carlsen was awarded a Lloyd's Silver Medal for Meritorious Service in recognition of his efforts to save Flying Enterprise , and received a ticker-tape parade in New York City on January 17, 1952. Kenneth Dancy was awarded the Order of Industrial Heroism medal by the Daily Herald newspaper and an illuminated citation from
651-522: The salvage contract, further details of the recovered cargo were not released. In 1976 author Bjarne Bekker published "Flying Enterprise & Kurt Carlsen" that told the life story of Carlsen and his efforts to save the Flying Enterprise. Carlsen was buried at sea at the Flying Enterprise's final resting place on 8 February 1990 after a journey to Japan in a safety box on SS Jutlandia . In June 2001 British technical divers, rediscovered
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#1732779751243682-616: The ship having failed, she sank in January and some of the cargo was later salvaged. Cape Kumukaki was built by Consolidated Steel Corporation of Wilmington, California and launched on 7 January 1944. Delivered on 18 March 1944, she was owned by the United States War Shipping Administration and registered at Los Angeles . After the end of World War II , she was sold in 1947 to the Isbrandtsen Company . At this time, her name
713-425: The stricken merchantman SS Flying Enterprise . Placed in reduced operational status from 17 April until 5 June 1953, she departed Norfolk 16 June for Thule , Greenland . Arriving on 3 July, she served until 30 September as barracks ship during Operation "Blue Jay," the construction of Thule Air Force Base . She returned to New York 9 October; steamed to Bremerhaven and back between 10 November and 4 December; and
744-537: Was a General G. O. Squier -class transport ship named for U.S. Army general Adolphus Greely . She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General A. W. Greeley in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General A. W. Greely (T-AP-141) . She was later sold and converted to a container ship and operated under several names before being scrapped in 1986. The Greely
775-692: Was a 6,711 ton Type C1-B ship which sank off Cornwall in 1952. She was built in 1944 as SS Cape Kumukaki for the United States Maritime Commission for use in World War II . The ship was sold in 1947 and operated in scheduled service under the name Flying Enterprise . At the end of 1951, on a voyage from Hamburg to the USA with mixed cargo and a few passengers, she was crippled by storm damage and shifting cargo. Passengers and crew were evacuated. Three weeks of effort to save
806-453: Was a Type C4 transport, laid down under Maritime Commission contract 18 July 1944 by Kaiser Co., Inc. , Yard 3, Richmond, California ; launched 5 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Clarke Wayland; acquired by the navy 22 March 1945; and commissioned the same day. After shakedown, General A. W. Greely embarked 2,923 troops and civilians and departed San Pedro, Los Angeles , 16 April for Australia . She reached Melbourne , 4 May, then sailed
837-456: Was acquiring zirconium, so it is not clear why any of these organizations should actually have information related to the Flying Enterprise . In the interview with Bekker, Carlsen tells him that yes the ship had a zirconium cargo and that it came from the German nuclear energy project . While there seems to be no reason to doubt the first statement, the origin of the zirconium is questionable as
868-744: Was again placed in reduced operational status from 9 December until 19 July 1954. General A. W. Greely departed New York 27 July, bound for the Pacific . Arriving San Francisco 11 August, she sailed for the Far East 7 September and operated in Korean and Japanese waters before returning to San Francisco via Adak, Alaska , 10 October. She steamed to Portland, Oregon , 27 October; entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Diego in March 1955; and
899-736: Was changed to the Flying Enterprise and re-registered in New York . For the next five years, she was used as a general cargo freighter in the North Atlantic . On 21 December 1951, under the command of Henrik Kurt Carlsen , she left Hamburg , Germany bound for the USA. Among her cargo was 1,270 long tons (1,290 t) of pig iron and 486 long tons (494 t) of coffee , 447 long tons (454 t) rags, 39 long tons (40 t) peat moss, twelve Volkswagen cars, antiques and antique musical instruments, typewriters, 447 long tons (454 t) of naphthalene as well as ten passengers. There
930-573: Was listing 45 degrees to port. British flagged vessel MV Sherborne and USS General A. W. Greely responded, Sherborne being first to arrive, early in the morning of 29 December. Carlsen, however, was reluctant to evacuate passengers and crew to a British ship. Sherborne was asked to remain on station in case the situation deteriorated before an American ship arrived. The situation did deteriorate, just as USS General A W Greely arrived mid-afternoon and both ships sent lifeboats to pick up passengers and crew. The crew and passengers were evacuated with
961-565: Was transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia, Washington , 29 August 1959. After being laid up in the reserve fleets for well over a decade, General A.W. Greely was sold for commercial use in 1968 to Pacific Far East Line (PFEL), converted to a container ship, and renamed SS Hawaii Bear , USCG ON 513675, IMO 6904791. In 1975 she was sold to Farrell Lines and renamed SS Austral Glade . Sold again in 1979 to American Pacific Container Line, she