Peder Godø
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Peder Godø was born at Godøy, Ålesund on 25 March 1897, the son of Lauritz Godø. He was one of the first to make the journey from Norway across the North Sea as part of the Shetland Bus. He was the skipper of M/B Jåbæk M 85 B (later given as Jaabek).
Jåbæk had been under military command since the war started. The skipper, Peder L. Godø was told be on stand-by and, on 2 May , the day after the south of Norway had capitulated, Godø was requested by authorities in Borgund to go to Ålesund where sixteen people came on board, among them soldiers from the Bergen area. The skipper's brother-in-law and part owner of the vessel, Oskar Pilskog was also on-board. Other crew were John Godø and Ivar Nerland. They departed Ålesund on 2 May 1940 with twenty people on board Jåbæk and arrived Lerwick in the morning of 4 May, having stopped at Baltasound. On their way south they had Bommo in front of them, also headed for Lerwick. |
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Jaabek (Jåbæk) on the Slip in Buckie during the war.
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Peder Godø later arrived in Buckie where he remained during the rest of the war, being a familiar figure in the Norwegian fishing community and in the wider life of the town.
He departed Buckie on 30 June 1945 to return to Norway. Peder Godø died in 1975. |
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