34 jaar oude flessepost deeltje 2

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After my mother's early death in 1962, my father in 1963 took a freighter to visit me in Cape Town, South Africa, where I lived as an exchange student. This was his first sea trip with 21 more to follow and he immediately started to send out bottle-letters, whose number after 20 years, when he stopped overseas travel, was about 600 of which about 100 were answered. Most of these 100 were under way less than one year, but five of them up to six years. Now your find really tops them all with nearly 35 years in the ocean.

As my father travelled only around Africa and either from Europe or to Europe, finds are concentrated in certain areas, i.e. Europe from Danmark to France, Westafrica, Florida, Caribic Islands and Brazil, the area around Cape Town an Tanzania. One bottle was found in Isreal. In France, a young boy only discovered the message on the beach, without any bottle. In Florida, a young couple alarmed the police, because they feared an hostile attac. In some cases, thepress reported about the bottles, some messages ended up in museums. And even visitors of these museums ( for example the Fisheries Museum in Hastings, England ) send letters and postcards to my father.

The most impressing message came from a man imprisoned on Robben Island near Cape Town, where Nelson Mandele also was detained. This detainee was already 10 years in Prison and had four more to go. The nicest answer came from a group of young, flippy Brazilians, who reported about their life style, commented politics in Brazil and put all kind of questions to this funny sender of bottle-posts. And then the very touching exchange of letters between my father and a lady who was born in Austria, lived in many places in Europe during the last war and thereafter, finally got married in the Bermudas and read about the bottle post in the newspaper. She wrote to my father because for ten years she lived in a small town close to Solingen....

In the "Solinger Tageblatt", which you contacted to trace my father, there had beenan article already on him and his bottels; but this was on January23, 1982.
That means 25 years ago. My father died in 1990 when he was 95 years old, born in 1895. We all enjoyed the celebration and he was in best mood. But one day, his forces faded.

Best regrds for today

Dieter

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2007 20:30 schreef Wakey het volgende:
Leuke update!!

In Florida, a young couple alarmed the police, because they feared an hostile attac

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Op zondag 7 januari 2007 02:38 schreef the_idiot het volgende:
Museum? Wou mr. Ertle himself dan niet de fles terug?

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Trage flessenpost
HAMBURG
Flessenpost is niet de snelste manier om een brief ergens te krijgen. Sakura uit Zoetermeer kreeg onlangs post, die 34 jaar onderweg was geweest.
Tijdens een wandeling aan de Zeeuwse kust vond hij een groene fles op de positie 51°45’25” N en 3°50’7” E. Hij ontdekte dat er post in zat en fotografeerde eerst de fles, waarvan de kurk al water had doorgelaten. Omdat de brief in aluminiumfolie was gewikkeld, bleek deze nog goed leesbaar. Hij was door Georg J.M. Ertle uit Solingen tijdens een reis met het ms Tabora (Deutsche Afrika-Linien) van Kaapstad naar Rotterdam op 6 april 1972 in 50°27’ N en 00°50’ E (voor de Engelse kust) overboord geworpen. Helaas had hij als adres een postbus aangegeven, die al lang niet meer bestaat. Via de nieuwsbrief FlaggenPost van rederij Essberger lukte het meer te weten te komen. De heer Ertle is overleden, maar zijn zoon vertelde dat zijn vader destijds 22 reizen tussen Rotterdam en Kaapstad had gemaakt en op diverse posities 300 flessen overboord had gezet. Daarvan zijn er honderd gevonden. De fles van Sakura is vermoedelijk wel de laatste die opduikt. (MP)

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2007 21:10 schreef Isegrim het volgende:
Superleuk. Ik moet ook weer eens een flessenpost ergens dumpen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2007 21:26 schreef Vava het volgende:
Dat zou wel heel mooi zijn idd Laat je weten wanneer het op televisie uit wordt gezonden? WDR is hier ook te ontvangen!