Barks and the refloated ship - scan request

[Lars Jensen]

Daniël van Eijmeren forwarded:

> Some of my pupils [...] wish to use [...] the Carl Barks story that
> inspired Kroeyer to refloat the ship in Kuwait. You have a link to a
> story on your site here:
> http://www.seriesam.com/barks/deta_text_s_pop_science_1965-04.html
> which describes it.

Actually, I've never seen Krøyer state that he did indeed get his idea
from the Barks story. Does anybody have any direct quotes from him on
this?

Not that I'm criticizing that New Zealand teacher. There are a lot of
contradictory and just-plain-wrong "facts" surrounding the raising of
Al-Kuwait/Al Kuwait/El-Kuwait.

For instance, when the "Popular Science" (PS) article was reprinted in
the Carl Barks Library (page 8C-666), the caption to it read: "Danish
inventor Karl Kroeyer probably remembered and then adapted an idea from
a Donald Duck story he had read in his youth". (Referring to Barks'
story, of course.) And, later on in the text, it said: "Kroeyer
undoubtedly read a Danish version, however, that translated Barks'
original floatation concept from Ping-Pong balls to tennis balls."

Not only does the writer of this caption make quite a leap in logic
(from "probably" to "undoubtedly"), he/she also unknowingly makes a
factual mistake. When Donald Duck in the PS article says: "Those tennis
balls have to run much faster [...]", he in Anders And & Co. says:
"Those balls have to run much faster [...]". And, in fact, throughout
the rest of Barks' story, as printed in AA&Co., the Ducks refer to the
balls as table tennis balls. The panels seen in the PS article are *not*
taken directly from AA&Co.! (A clue can be found in the fact that the
caption in the upper left corner of "Panel 1" has been removed from the
PS version.)

Anyway, the Barks story was first published in Denmark on May 21st, 1957
(AA&Co. 1957-11). By then, Krøyer was 42 years old. Hardly "in his
youth".

Lars