330-PS-6135-4:  USN LST 287 saves Danish ship Else Basse, August 25, 1953.   Captain Charles A. Barrett, master of the USNS LST 287, received the details of the disaster on board the Else Basse from the only passenger on board the Danish freighter, Mrs. Aase Maersk-Moller.  Mrs. Maersk-Moller, who flew from Gander International Airport to New York after the disaster, boarded the Military Sea Transportation Service ship at its Brooklyn pier and thanked the crew for their rescue of a two-million dollar cryolite cargo.  She is a representative of the Ivigtut Cryolite Mines, Greenland, the company that shipped the cargo.   (4/21/2015).
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