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    Helge Ingstad

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  1. Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada.

  2. Mar 30, 2001 · Helge Marcus Ingstad was born on Dec. 30, 1899, in Meraaker, on Norway's west coast. He practiced law in Levanger before striking off on a life of adventure in 1926.

  3. Nov 17, 2018 · The KNM Helge Ingstad pictured on November 10, 2018 in the Hjeltefjord near Bergen. The frigate, which was returning from NATO's Trident Juncture exercises, was evacuated after the collision with ...

  4. Mar 31, 2001 · Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian scholar and explorer whose discovery that Vikings landed in North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus turned Norse myth into historical fact, died Thursday in ...

  5. Jan 5, 2022 · The accident in summary. On 8th November 2018, the frigate Helge Ingstad (HING) was heading south down Hjeltefjord returning to her home base at Haakonsvern, near Bergen after participation in NATO exercise Trident Juncture. Just after 0400, HING collided with the bow of the Sola TS, a fully laden 112,939 DWT tanker, heading north having just ...

  6. Dec 30, 2001 · In 1961, Helge Ingstad did what others had not: he took a boat to Newfoundland and looked around for a likely landing area, and when he found a spot that looked attractive from the sea -- everyone ...

  7. In 1960, Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad discovered the remains of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows on the northern shore of Newfoundland. Helge was a Norwegian lawyer turned explorer, and Anne was a professional archaeologist.

  8. Jul 23, 2015 · Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad had been traveling along the coast of Newfoundland on a government medical boat for months before they arrived at the northern tip of the island and the village of L’Anse aux Meadows. Both were convinced they’d find a Norse settlement somewhere on the island, despite the fact that there were no real proof of ...

  9. HNoMS Helge Ingstad was a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. The vessel was ordered on 23 June 2000 and constructed by Navantia in Spain. The ship was launched on 23 November 2007 and commissioned on 29 November 2009.

  10. In 1960, Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad made a discovery that rewrote the history of European exploration and colonization of North America – a thousand-y...

  11. Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic ...

  12. Apr 12, 2001 · Helge Marcus Ingstad, champion of the Vikings, died on March 29th, aged 101. AS ONE voyager to another, Helge Ingstad was always kind about Christopher Columbus. He had done well to reach America ...

  13. Dec 30, 2019 · Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian explorer, was born Dec. 30, 1899. Ingstad's wife, Anne Stine, was an archaeologist, and both were descended from Norsemen and Norsewomen, so naturally they had an interest in the sagas of early Viking voyages across the North Atlantic.

  14. Jan 5, 2022 · A simplified summary showing how the collision between the frigate Helge Ingstad and the oil tanker Sola TS on 8th November 2018 which led to the loss of the...

  15. The Helge Ingstad collision was a ship collision between the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad and the Maltese tanker Sola TS. The accident happened on the night of 8 November 2018 in the Hjeltefjorden north of the Sture Terminal in Øygarden . The frigate was assigned to Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 and was with the group on its way to Dundee ...

  16. Nov 8, 2019 · The Norwegian frigate “KNM Helge Ingstad” takes on water after a collision with the tanker “Sola TS” in Oygarden, Norway, November 8, 2018. NTB Scanpix/Marit Hommedal via REUTERS ...

  17. May 15, 2023 · The duty commander of a Norwegian Navy frigate that sank following a collision with an oil tanker, has been found guilty of negligence. The unidentified officer was given a 60-day conditional sentence by the Hordaland district court on Monday. He had denied the charge. The 134-meter (442-foot) KNM Helge Ingstad collided with the Maltese-flagged oil tanker Sola TS in a harbor north of Bergen in ...

  18. Nov 12, 2019 · The frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad and the tanker Sola TS collided in the Hjeltefjord in the early hours of 8 November 2018. The frigate had 137 persons on board with a mix of conscripts and ...

  19. Jan 1, 2001 · Helge Ingstad, a Norwegian, wrote most of the text of this well illustrated 199-page large-format book. His archeologist wife, in charge of the actual diggings, wrote the chapter on their meticulous uncovering of the ruins of eight turf buildings during the course of seven seasons from 1961 to 1968, the largest of which, House F, contained six ...

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  20. Nov 9, 2019 · The HNoMS Helge Ingstad and the Sola TS collided in the Hjeltefjord in the early hours of November 8, 2018. The frigate had 137 people on board with a mix of conscripts and permanent crew.

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