Rhederi M. Jebsen
- featuring - M/S "Emma Jebsen" -
Denmark's last China trader - 07 -
The people onboard -
1972-06-087 M/S "Emma Jebsen" - Cool Chinese Sailor -, photographed during the maiden voyage, 1972 - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1972-06-08 M/S "Emma Jebsen" - Chan Lap Chung - Photography: Karsten Petersen
- Another cool Chinese sailor, - Chan Lap Chung -, photographed during the maiden voyage.
Some fishing boats can be seen ahead, so this picture must have be taken at the end of the journey to Guyana, - August 1972
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1972-06-091 Ib Thorsen Hansen - Radio Officer - M/S "Emma Jebsen"
- Radio Officer Ib Thorsen Hansen enjoying his trip up Essequibo River for loading logs for China, - maiden voyage 1972
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Chinese sailors , - testing the life boat. - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Leung Chi Man , - Crew Cook - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" - Chan Lap Chung , - funny Fitter -, here without hair -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Chan Lap Chung , - funny Fitter -, here with hair. - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Another one of Leung Chi Man - - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Chan Lap Chung, - Engine Fitter. Photographed in 1974. - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
M/S "Emma Jebsen" Radio Officer Ib Thorsen Hansen strongly concentrating on drinking a beer, - 1973. - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
In Deep Meditation, - 1.st Officer Birger Hauerslev -, 1974. - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1974-06-035 Radio Officer Henrik Cederberg
Photography by Karsten Petersen
"Emma Jebsens" Radio Officer posing as real Far East sailor. - photographed on Sept. 22, 1974 during a trip to Oluanpi, - the southern tip of Taiwan -
I had planned a trip to the most southern tip of Taiwan together with my then girlfriend Shao Lan - "Small Flower" - and Henrik was available too - and joined us - - -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
Henrik Cederberg - wearing his finest Radio Operator's Gala Uniform -
Photographed in Kaohsiung in 1974.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
Henrik Cederberg, - Radio Operator - Here's looking at you kid - - - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
Henrik Cederberg - South China Sea, - here I come - - -! (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1974-03-082 Chan Lap Chung - in his usual good mood - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1974-03-084 Chan lap Chung Whoaaaaaaa - - - Chinese Dracula - - - Aug. 1974 - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
Chan Lap Chung - in a rare, thoughtful moment - (Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1977-02-010 -"Emma Jebsen" - permanent crew member, - and my good friend -, Chan Lap Chung.
Going ashore in Hong Kong, - 1977
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
1977-03-022 - My Engineer college, - Erik -, enjoying himself during a visit to famous sailor's bar, - "Red Lion" in Ashley Road, Hong Kong.
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
I will end this page with a picture of myself from 1974, because I too was certainly a crew member of the "Emma Jebsen" - all the way from the construction at the yard in Germany in 1971 and onwards, until I finally left "Emma Jebsen - with a sad heart - in 1977.
The story behind the picture is, - that one day I got a letter from my parents, who asked me when I had planned to come home? They missed me and would very much like to see me - - -
Yes - of course - - - But I stayed in the Far East for years, - and NEVER thought about coming home! Life was so good here!
I enjoyed a lot of freedom, and I stayed in Hong Kong among the most intelligent people in the World - And the same goes for Japan - and Korea - - -
And the women too were top class in that corner of the World- - - Highly intelligent and highly cultivated, - not to mention their beauty - and I got along with them very well, - and never missed fantastic female company - - -
So - I rarely went home to see my old parents, - and they missed me - - - So, - if I did not plan to go home soon, - would I be so kind to send them a photo of myself in order to compensate for my absense?????
YES - of course - - - I felt a little bit ashamed and at the first opportunity I went ashore in Hong Kong and made a series of photos at a local photo studio - - -
And this photo is one of them - - - For my old parents - - -
Usually we did not run around in uniforms on "Emma Jebsen", because we had to work, but here I made an exeption and chose to be photographed in my 1st. Engineer uniform of Jebsen's standard.
It worked out well, - and my parents were very happy, - and furthermore I did go home for vacation next time around -