Harald Haarfage
xpguy2001	Im looking for information on the above named battleship including a ships roster. specifically for june of 1907 when the ship was in new york harbor. my grandfather may have been on it and or jumped ship.
Jo Anne Sadler	On the Morse/Ellis Island database, there is no ship of that name arriving in New York Harbor in 1907, click on Ships Lists and search there: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/eidb/ellis.html However, if it was a "battleship", it would not have had passenger lists as it would have been a military vessel and not subject to the standard customs regulations applying to passenger vessels. There is information on this site about the ship Harald Haarfager operated by the Norwegian-American Line that was wrecked in 1891.
xpguy2001	l know that. im trying to find out where i can get information on the battleship and its crew. any advise would be appreciated david
Borge	So this was probably a Norwegian Navy ship visiting the US? If a Norwegian crew member of a Naval ship deserted in a foreign port, it was a much more serious matter then if he jumped a merchant marine ship. There will be records with information about this in the Norwegian archives, and maybe in the New York police records, as he would be hunted. The Norwegian records relating to the Navy is not easy to get by, most of the material is not filmed so you would have to do research in the Norwegian archives. It might be better to start in the other end. Maybe it would be a good start to check the New York Times to see if they had any reports about foreign Navy ships visiting the harbor in June of 1907. There might even be notices about missing crew members.
gunnar	P/S Harald Haarfagre was the name of the first Norwegian panserskip, built 1897, preparing for a possible war with Sweeden. A total of 4 panserskip (armored ships) were built in these years, Harald Haarfagre is now the name of the camp training recruits for the navy. The ship was scrapped in 1947 after having been captured by the germans and used during ww2 by them. The ships bell is still hanging at the training camp.
gunnar	Picture Harald Haarfagre http://home.no.net/sofurre/images/haraldhaarfagre.jpg