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Great card! Why not add a few lines on your Profile explaining who and what is your collection? Apparently you are public, or you wouldn't be posting on The Commons. Tak!

Hand colored slides. Rescue boat "Svolvær" sails. In the foreground stands a man dressed in oilskins and Southwest aboard another boat. -- per Google

Google didn't get one bit of the translation right. His hat is not a "Southwest" but a "sou'wester." The vessel has its own entry in the Norwegian Wikipedia -- nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS_«Svolvær» The class of vessel was designed by Colin Archer -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Archer. "Colin Archer (22 July 1832 – 8 February 1921) was a Scottish naval architect and shipbuilder from Larvik, Norway. His parents had immigrated to Norway from Scotland in 1825. He was known for building safe and durable ships including the Fram used in both Fridtjof Nansen's and Roald Amundsen's polar expeditions." Several are still in commission, although probably not as rescue vessels. See, for example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Society_for_Sea_Rescue#me... The last sentence of the Wikipedia page suggests that the "Svolvær," built in 1897, is still around -- in private hands.

Just found Flickr album for her, from the Redningsselskapet (the Norwegian rescue organization):
www.flickr.com/photos/redningsselskapet/sets/721576303288... and has one photo that might have been taken on the same occasion:

Hand colored slides. Men and women walking on the deck of a tourist ship in Geiranger Fjord. On the deck hanging lifeboats and a couple of deck chairs are set up. In the background is the waterfall "Seven Sisters", also called Knivsflåfossen. -- per Google