Klassiske Linjer nr 10 1999 - Klassisk Treseiler Klubb

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No. 7, November 1997. NIRVANA article: the portrait
of King Haakon in oils is shown under “club pages”.
In my long article on the career of Johan Anker, in
English, I mistakenly gave the impression that the
granite monument at Garnholmen, Hankø, was
erected in his honour for the centenary of his birth
(1971). Although there was a big gathering there to
mark this centenary, it was in 1949 that Crown-Prince
Olav, in the presence of King Haakon and other
members of the Norwegian Royal Family, unveiled the
monument. Erik Anker made a speech on both occasions
and here is a photograph of him. The unveiling of
1949 is shown on Lars Bull’s film of Johan Anker’s life.
KLASSISKE LINJER NR.10 MAI 1999
Erik Anker
No. 8, May 1998. As a supplement to the article on SIRA, here is a photo of her
Swedish rival SVANEVIT. Are the other Swedish competitors in the Kattegat cup,
such as YVONNE, ALBATROSS and ATAIR still in existence, but perhaps with other
names? SILJA is still up in Finland and FRØYA in Scotland. News from Sweden
about this would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, as regards all 8 mR, the
amazing register kept by John Lammerts van Bueren will hopefully track down all
surviving boats.
No. 9, November 1998.
There was a line missing
at the end of my article in
Norwegian about the
rivalry of the two clubs,
NFL and KYK, the
precursors of KNS. One
was national without a
clubhouse, the other was
based in Kristiania on the
Dronningen site. They
TERJE VIKEN, 1880
finally amalgamated into
KNS at the end of 1904. Gunnar Knudsen seiling witout a flag!
The missing line should read:
(Men den formalitet å
oppløse) KYK var faktisk aldri foretatt. There is also an interesting point about the blue and white KNS pennant.
This was taken over from KYK, and few KNS members today probably know about its origin, especially since the
NFL pennant was red with the golden lion. In my article, I should have perhaps touched upon the story of the
«rebellion» against the Union flag in the early 1890s. Gunnar Knudsen, the first Commodore of NFL, the
national club, when it was founded in 1883, had to resign his membership ten years later because he sailed his
TERJE VIKEN without the «Sildesalat», daring to use a purely Norwegian flag. The Norwegians finally won the
right to display their own national flag exactly 100 years ago. The assent was passed by the Storting on a 3rd
reading in spite of the Swedish King Oscar’s refusal the first two times.