Jan Herman Linge

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Jan Herman Linge (1972)

Jan Herman Linge (* 28. January 1922 in Trondheim , † 25. June 2007 in Asker ) was a Norwegian engineer and boots - designer . He was the son of the actor Martin Linge and his wife Margit F. Vogt. His father Martin Linge was the first company commander of the Norwegian Independent Company No. 1 in World War II , which was colloquially known as the Linge Company .

Life

Yngling under sail

At the age of 15, Linge went out to sea as a sailor on the motor ship Oro from Arendal . He liked the seafaring , but postponed his further training. His father did not agree and looked for him to take him home. He found him in Singapore , and in 1939 they were hired together on a ship that was going home.

Linge gained work experience at several shipyards between 1940 and 1941 . He began his studies in 1943, but it was interrupted by the Second World War. After the end of the war, he continued this and, after training between 1946 and 1949 in England and the United States, took the examination as a shipbuilding engineer .

During the Second World War, Linge fled to Sweden in the Vito sailboat, which he himself designed and built . From there he came to England in a British gunboat, where he was trained as a Special Operations Executive . He was deployed in his father's Linge company from 1944 to 1945. He landed with a parachute in German-occupied Norway in the winter of 1944/45 as a saboteur and worked as a trainer for resistance fighters in the largest Norwegian resistance group Milorg in Akershus / Hedmark .

Linge was captured during an operation and transferred by the Gestapo to Germany for questioning. Linge managed to escape on the way and reach the advancing American forces. In early April 1945 he returned to England and became a trainer for new agents.

Linge was an engineer at Båtservice Verft A / S (A / S Westermoen Hydrofoil Båtbyggeri og Mek. Verksted) in Mandal from 1949 to 1956 . During this time he constructed the torpedo boat Nasty , which formed the basis for the Tjeld class . 42 of these boats were built in Norway between 1957 and 1970. In addition to the 22 boats used in Norway, they were exported to Germany , Greece , Turkey and the United States, where six were also manufactured under license.

Fjordling 17HT in Melbu harbor

In his own boat design and consulting company Jan H. Linge A / S , he designed high-speed motor boats for Draco , Fjord plast , Windy and other manufacturers. Linge constructed the Soling sailboat , which was designated as an Olympic boat class in 1968 and was used at eight Olympic Games. The Yngling , also designed by Linge, became the 1979 International Class and Olympic Class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens . Linge also builds several 5.5 and other yachts and motor boats. Linge's designs always ended with -ling in their name.

Boat types

Sailing and rowing boats

  • Dingyling , 6 foot , row boat
  • Lærling , 12 feet, is made in the Netherlands
  • Jypling , 18 feet, from 1977 -?, Two-hand regatta ship with trapeze
  • Yngling , 21 feet, from 1967 -? Regatta boat, daysailer
  • Firling , 24 feet, from 1971 -?, Partially built at Kristiansands Mek. Verksted , small, safe family motor sailer, with outboard motor
Nameplate of Firling
  • Soling , 27 feet, from 1960, regatta boat
  • Smiling , 28 feet, from 1973 -?, Family sailboat with long keel
  • Brisling , 28 feet, variant of the Smiling
  • Halling , half-ton truck, built in 1982 from Kevlar and chipboard as a single piece
  • Willing, 31 foot, family sailboat
  • Gambling , 34 foot, family sailboat

Motor boats

  • Populær Fjord , 11 feet
  • Musling 12/370 , 12 feet
  • Musling 430 / Wesling 430 , 14 feet
  • Gromling , 15 feet, a shortened Wesling
  • Wesling , 16 feet, various variants, also Musling 490 called
  • Tromling , 17 foot day cruiser for outboard motor of Polar built
  • Fjordling , 17 feet and 18/550 feet in different variants, supplied with outboard and sterndrive
  • Fjord Sport , 21 feet
  • Fjord Bermuda , 21 feet
  • Fjord Olympic , 21 feet
  • Snekling , 25 feet
  • Mekling , 27 feet, cabin cruiser with an unusual plan, open or with hardtop, for 1 or 2 rear engines
  • Sagaling , 30 feet, family boat
  • Fjord Diplomat , 30 feet
  • Dreamling , 32 feet

Draco

  • 20 HT athlete
  • 24 styling
  • 27 Stirling

Windy

  • 24 cabin cruisers
  • 24 day cruisers
  • 22 day cruisers
  • 24 halfcabin
  • 22 funcab
  • 22 sport
  • 23 funcab
  • 25 funcab
  • 27 sterling
  • 7500
  • 7800
  • 8000 FC / CC
  • 9000 FC / CC

A total of around 10,000 motor boats and 10,000 sailing boats by Linges of different models have been built.

Honorary positions

Honourings and prices

  • Deltagermedaljen (Norwegian medal for participation in World War II)
  • Krigsmedaljen ( war medal ) for services in World War II
  • 1965 "Merket for God Design" in the industrial design category for the Fjordling 17 motorboat
  • 1966: Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskaplige Råds Ærespris (Honorary Award of the Norwegian Technical and Scientific Council)
  • 1971 and 1972 "Merket for God Design" in the industrial design category for the sailing boat Yngling
  • 1988: Jacob-prisen as a designer
  • 2001: Knight 1st class of the St. Olav Order
  • 2000: Gold medal from the International Sailing Federation (ISAF)
  • 2002: ISAF Beppe Croce Trophy

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Laerling. Retrieved June 2, 2015 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Plastbåt Fjordling 17th NORSK DESIGN- OG ARKITEKTURSENTER, November 17, 1965, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 16, 2018 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ Norges forskningsråd. Retrieved June 1, 2015 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ Seilbåt Yngling. NORSK DESIGN- OG ARKITEKTURSENTER, November 17, 1971, archived from the original on June 1, 2015 ; Retrieved April 16, 2018 (Norwegian).
  5. ↑ Seilbåt Yngling. NORSK DESIGN- OG ARKITEKTURSENTER, November 17, 1972, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 16, 2018 (Norwegian).
  6. ↑ Jan Herman Linge. In: Norsk biografisk leksikon . Retrieved June 1, 2015 (Norwegian).
  7. ↑ Jacob-prisen. Prisvinnere. In: Store norske leksikon . Norsk design- og arkitektursenter, accessed June 1, 2015 (Norwegian).

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personal data
SURNAME Linge, Jan Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian naval engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Trondheim
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2007
Place of death Asker