
Master
Captain Magnus Halvorsen
Bergen, Norway
Speaks in three word sentences. Refuses orange food.
Forty years at sea and, by his own count, forty years of being asked how many times he has circumnavigated. He stopped counting after Rotterdam. Runs the ship on the principle that if you cannot say it in three words, you probably do not need to say it. Rumoured to have a wife in Bergen who has never seen him for a full calendar month.
Portrait is a comic book invention. Under the conditions of my passage, no likeness of the working crew may appear here, names have been changed and faces drawn from memory.