A picture is available at Lillesand Sjømannsforening's website (external links - click in the photo to make it larger).
As can be seen when going to Page 1 above, Ciss was on her way from Cristobal to Charlottetown when war broke out in Norway on Apr. 9-1940 (this voyage had started out in Buenaventura on March 23).
Ciss had departed St. John's, N.F. in ballast for Louisburg C.B. in the morning of Febr. 4-1941. The next day a storm was encountered, and she lost her steering and started to drift towards the south coast of New Foundland, but by filling water in the after hold they managed to get better control of the ship. The storm lasted until the following evening and they continued their voyage, having removed the water from the hold. Sydney and Canso radio stations were contacted to obtain information on the ice situation, and they were told there were no reports of same. However, on Febr. 8, when about 15 n. miles southeast of Louisburg they encountered pack ice, so they steered a more southerly course along the edge of the ice, while contacting the pilot station for information about the ice situation near Louisburg. They were again told there was no ice in the harbour, nor off the entrance, only a strip of slob ice south of Scatari Island, N.S.
That day another storm was brewing, and when the steering again started to cause problems the aft hold was filled with water again. They had to keep changing their course because ice was encountered several times, until they at around 13:00, when about 13 n. miles south of Louisburg Light, decided to attempt to get into port. However, at 14:20 pack ice was again encountered 3 n. miles south of Louisburg Light. At that time fog had set in. Assuming it was just a narrow strip of ice as reported by the pilot station they kept going at slow speed, but as the winds increased the ice packed itself tighter and tighter together until she at 15:00 was surrounded by it, when about 1.5-2 n. miles south/southeast of Louisburg Light.
The pilot station was contacted for assistance, and her engine was stopped so as not to destroy her propellers. When no reply was received from the pilot station, the harbour master in Louisburg was contacted with a request for an ice breaker. The ice continued to carry her helplessly eastwards along the coast. At 23:00 Pontnova Island could be seen, and fearing that they would run aground a telegram was sent to Sydney (C.B.) saying they were in a critical situation. At the same time they finally received replies to the previously sent telegrams that ice breakers would be sent out the following morning.
By Febr. 9 she had drifted very close to Pontnova Island and at 13:30 all men were called up on deck. She avoided the island but about half an hour later she ran into Little Shag Rock. Her afterpart was thrown up on the rock, then the masses of ice pulled her off and she continued drifting. The lifeboats were now made ready and SOS sent out several times. Her after hold was flooding; by 21:00 the water had risen to 1' below the main deck, so the boats were lowered onto the ice. Due to the ice, they had a tough job getting them clear of the ship, but eventually managed to get clear behind her, by which time the after deck was in the water line. The ice was packed so tightly that it was impossible for them to use their oars, so they drifted along with the ship towards Scatari Island. When they were between the island and the mainland it looked like the ship came to a rest, with her entire after deck and the poop under water, while the lifeboats kept drifting north to about half a n. mile off West Scatari Island Light. They used their whistles and torches in an attempt to attract attention, but received no reply, and the pack ice now started to take them towards the ocean.
At 7 o'clock in the morning of Febr. 10 it appeared as though the ice was breaking up a bit so sails were set on both boats, whith 2-3 men helping to push the ice away, heading towards Flint Island, having seen open water in that direction. By 10 o'clock they were close to land but continued north, as they could not find a suitable landing place. The wind increased to a gale force and with the water continuously splashing over those in the boat, they were wet and extremely cold. At 10:30 they spotted some houses on shore and headed in that direction. The port boat landed at Long Beach at 11:45 and the starboard boat at 13:30.
Th. Brøvig, Farsund had previously had ship named Cis. This ship had originally been delivered in 1885 as Albueara to owners in Glasgow, 1554 gt, sold to Norway in 1911 and renamed Cis. Later sailed as Fremad I for owners in Sandefjord from 1916, sunk by U 59 on Apr. 9-1917. Another Cis was originally delivered as German Marga in 1889, 1109 gt, later sailed as German Fürst Bülow from 1905, then as Nautik from 1908, Westfalen from 1910. Became Norwegian Cis in 1919, broken up in 1923.
The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Volume I - The Norwegian Maritime Museum, and misc. - (ref. My sources).
Ashraf Elsherif, above left, and Masoud Molayem grab a bite to eat and people-watch at Lebanese Taverna at Rockville Town Square, which opened in 2007. At left, still missing from Rockville Town Square is a grocery. The Superfresh chain has leased space, but the spot remains vacant. (Photos By Katherine Frey/the Washington Post)
Rockville Town Square, with restaurants, shops, condos, a library and a nearby Metro stop, was seen as a saving grace to lure business and smart growth. But retail changeover has been an issue. (Katherine Frey/the Washington Post)
When Rockville Town Square opened in summer 2007, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) praised the 12 acres of shops, restaurants and condominiums as a way to revive the aging suburb. Officials visualized people living above stores, eating lunch at sidewalk cafes and walking to the Rockville Metro station.
Nearly three years later, that vision is still taking shape. On weeknights, the after-work crowd streams into Gold's Gym. On weekends, the Gordon Biersch restaurant is packed. But the large space leased to the Superfresh grocery chain remains vacant; eight of the 46 storefronts have changed hands; and some of the restaurants are struggling. The development was designed to meet a demand for pedestrian-friendly suburbs with an urban feel, but it opened just as the economy soured.
The ability of the Washington area's suburban town centers to weather the recession will have long-term effects on life in the counties ringing the District. Developers want to capitalize on the demand for housing from people without children and draw suburbanites to walkable communities where they can live, work and socialize. Local governments see town centers as a form of suburban renewal -- a way to make over aging downtowns, diversify tax bases and reduce traffic congestion -- and some are providing developers with incentives to help make it happen.
But planners say that does not guarantee success. Developers still must persuade people accustomed to driving to keep their cars parked, and town centers have to provide the right mix of retail, residential and office space to compete in a crowded marketplace.
"There's been a cultural shift about our suburbs," said John McIlwain, a senior fellow for housing at the Urban Land Institute. "We'll see a lot more interest in compact urban living."
The nation's two largest groups -- baby boomers shedding their houses as they become empty nesters and millennials reaching their 30s and moving into their own homes -- largely prefer densely populated, walkable communities, experts say.
Urban planners project that 86 percent of the growth in new households will be single people or couples without children at home -- and neither group wants to live in remote suburbs or in houses surrounded by big lawns.
"People want to live near culture and with bars and restaurants right outside their doors," said Faroll Hamer, director of planning and zoning for Alexandria, which wants to revitalize areas around the Potomac Yard shopping center and Landmark Mall. "We're not abandoning the suburbs, but we're providing more choices."
That's what attracted Daniel Stauffer, 42, to Rockville Town Square. He said moving from rural Blacksburg, Va., to the District would have been "too overwhelming," but he still wanted easy Metro access to the city's restaurants, museums and arts venues as well as a short commute to his job in Germantown.
"I wanted a lifestyle where I didn't have to get in my car all the time and something with a community feel," said Stauffer, a molecular biologist. "I have a tailor, dry cleaner and breakfast place right outside my door."
Establishing a village center with a successful combination of restaurants and stores can take several years, industry observers say.
"It took 15 years for Reston [Town Center] to work," said Steven B. Alloy, president of Virginia-based home builder Stanley Martin. "Now it's a home run."
'FACE': Chajana denHarder mediates red and explains it to the viewer through a series of decisions. (Courtesy Of Chajana Denharder)
Floating just below the surface of the water, photographer Chajana denHarder appears little more than a blob of pink in many of her self photographs. In others, she captures herself as one or both of her legs kicks through the surface, sending up violent plumes of water. She is never pictured treading water or doing a backstroke - it's the surface of the water that fascinates her.
And in a current show of her work at Anacostia's Gallery at Vivid Solutions, it's the surfaces of her prints that are so fascinating, whether she knows it or not. Photos from two series form a study of how noise works in digital photography - both the hazard it represents and the tool it can be in a smart photographer's hands.
In "Explosion," an 18-by-27-inch digital print, denHarder's figure has disappeared underneath the water. She apparently has just dived in. Splashes are caught as they erupt into the air, like paint thrown by Jackson Pollock. The still depiction reveals chance geometries, as though the splashes were assembled in Photoshop.
It's important to note the print's size: Given the photograph's resolution, it is large, so parts appear noisy. Really noisy. Close up, the better lit areas are a static fuzz of tiny colorful dots. Noise this prominent in a digital print is the sign of an error - or a savvy decision.
To achieve clarity at a large scale, denHarder is paying a cost in the form of a noisy print. She's arguably pushing the print scale beyond its technical limit. This would be an egregious error if the work were not all about surface textures. For the water series, it works.
In a second series, denHarder portrays a forested setting into which she has spliced parts of her body. For "Hands," she has Photoshopped multiple hands onto a tree trunk. The lighting on the hands is not uniform, making for a patchwork effect, as if she had used scissors and tape to collage the pictures together, instead of sophisticated software.
In reality, she used photo-editing software to achieve a folksy, do-it-yourself look. But the images of the hands are too noisy to tolerate, and the same holds true for other prints in the series juxtaposing her erratically placed body parts with tree trunks and limbs.
Her theme of joining body with nature has a clear forebear in the work of Ana Mendieta, the multimedia artist who used nature to evoke her body in photographs, land works and performances. In derHarder's tree series, the scale and noise distract from this holistic theme.
But denHarder's gambit nearly pays off in the water series. For these, the decisions about surface - ample noise, a lack of fill lighting, large scale - all reinforce the tension of a body hovering at the water's surface. In "Face," for instance, a streak of red underneath the water is the only hint of human figure. How she mediates that red and explains it to the viewer is through a series of decisions about light, noise and scale.
In fact, with these prints she could probably afford to go even larger - to make the noise even more pronounced and the surface all the more tenuous. The trees series suggests that denHarder hasn't quite thought through all these issues. In the water series, in particular, questions over the printing decisions aren't secondary to the work - they're the questions that make or break the show.
A Space for the Transitory by Chajana denHarder at the Gallery at Vivid Solutions, 2208 Martin Luther King Ave. SE, through Feb. 18, noon-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. 202-758-0339 or www.vividsolutionsdc.com.
Written by Boris Ivkovic on September 13, 2013 in Fossil Limited Edition, Fossil Watches - No comments
In a rare turn of events, Fossil has produced a timepiece with a self-winding mechanical movement. This unusual watch in the offer of the mostly fashion oriented manufacturer is made in a limited edition and called Breaker. Though without any additional features except a date display, it is still the most interesting Fossil watch in a strictly watchmaking sense. Another nice trait is the watch’s ability to withstand pressure up to 200 meters which qualifies it as a diving timekeeper. Moreover, it is fairly affordable with the price of $445.
The respectable water resistance of 20 ATM is backed up with more features of a diving timepiece – it has a screw-down crown and a unidirectional rotating bezel. Its movable bezel features a knurled appearance for easier handling and is in black color with contrasted Arabic numerals.
Fossil Breaker Limited Edition is placed inside a round 316 stainless steel housing with brushed finish. Its diameter is 45 mm, whereas its thickness measures to 14 mm. On the front side, the rare automatic timepiece by Fossil includes a glare-proofed crystal made from mineral. The fact that they used mineral instead of sapphire crystal in a way reduces the appeal of the watch, but simultaneously enables it to have a lower price. On the rear side of the case there is solid metal which is engraved with the number which denotes the place of the watch in the 554-piece limited edition.
The men’s watch by Fossil has a black analog dial that matches the color of the bezel. Its dial features three hands (hour and minute hands are luminous and the minute hand has an orange outline, whereas the sweeping second hand is in blue color), applied luminous bar-shaped hour markers and white minute indices. It also incorporates an aperture used to indicate date which is placed in a traditional spot, at the right side of the dial.
Inside the steel housing, there is a self-winding Miyota 8215 movement. It is a caliber of Japanese production (Miyota is owned by the Citizen group) which features 21 jewels. It is made with a one-way winding system and once its power storage is filled completely, it provides enough power to keep the timepiece running for about 40 hours. It has the operational frequency of 3 Hz while its dimensions are 26 mm for the diameter and 5.67 for the thickness.
When it comes to the attachment, Fossil Breaker Limited Edition timepiece can satisfy various tastes, since it is coupled with three different interchangeable wristlets. There are: a black high-grade silicone strap with perforations, a black nylon NATO strap with a blue stripe in the middle, as well as a three-row bracelet made of solid 315 steel. Each of three attachments fastens with a single push deployment clasp.
Another nice trait is that the watch comes in a special water proof orange box made of nylon injection-molded plastic. It is large enough, so one can carry the Fossil Breaker along with his personal belongings, such as keys, wallet and phone. Being sealed with water and dust proof pressure knob, the box is ideal to carry one’s things in it when going to the beach.
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