Tuesday 12 March 2013

Mistress to a slave

 You have to be of a certain age to make the association between this ferry and Frankie Howerd. But to those of us that fall into this demographic it is very strong. The ferry connected the Rjukan railway with the rest of the Norwegian railway system. A sister ship was sunk in 1944 to prevent heavy water being sent to Germany for use in the production of an atomic bomb.

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