My grandparents were salt traders from the northern coast. They set out from Trondheim on the steamer “Is Dronningen” (The Ice Queen) in the summer of 1905 and never set foot in their homeland again. It was meant to be a short visit to attend a Fisheries Convention in Southampton but the crossing was so bad that they never sailed back. They raised my father to be mortally afraid of any body of water larger than a Sitz Bath.
