NORWEGIAN SHIPS RAN THE GAUNTLET. JANUARY 1941, KIRKWALL. ARRIVAL AT A BRITISH PORT OF THE NORWEGIAN SHIPS WHICH ESCAPED FROM SWEDEN IN JANUARY 1941. THEY ESCAPED FROM GOTHENBURG ON 23 JANUARY AND WERE MET BY UNITS OF THE HOME FLEET IN THE NORTH SEA AND ESCORTED INTO KIRKWALL ON 25 JANUARY 1941. - Sam Drake, Bosun; Karl Johan Osscarson, the only Norwegian of the crew; and Jack Little, Asst Engineer, seen aboard ELISABETH BAKKE. All of the crew escaped from Narvik into Sweden after being prisoner there for 3 weeks

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