Taakeheimen

Wrecked during capture, crew picked up by "Staalis" and brought to Reykjavik.

Hans Reynolds, who was a tourist with the "Polaruv" in the Danish Strait of East Greenland, tells of an encounter with the "Taakeheimen" off Angmagssalik in 1923:

"Taakeheimen" came under us, and the captain came on board for a visit. When he disembarked again, I was invited to accompany him to look at some ceiling paintings in the cabin. There turned out to be several good pictures from the fishing field, as follows: Utkiksmand in the barrel, "Taakeheimen" in the open sea, slapshots on a flake, capture from a boat (you can see the shooter ahead and the seals inside on the ice), a bear climbing onto a flake, and finally the trading post Skaanland near Bodø, where the ship, like "Polar Wolf", belongs. "Taakeheimen" had nice, spacious cabins above deck. It is not built for sealing, but has previously been a fishing vessel on New Foundland.

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When "Taakeheimen" was with the Danes on the east coast in 1919, they were given a bear cub in return for payment if they got it to Copenhagen alive. But this did not succeed. Off Norway, the bear jumped overboard and landed on Karmøen, where it went berserk and nearly scared the wits out of some carers when it appeared. A resolute man now came over and gave the polar bear a bullet.

(Bergens Tidene newspaper, November 12, 1923)