SS Buskø
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Buskø was a small Norwegian sealer, seized by the U.S. Coast Guard in East Greenland in September 1941, before U.S. entry into the war, while bringing supplies and rotating personnel for Norwegian hunting stations. This caused an uproar in the American press when she was towed to Boston as a prize, frequently but incorrectly called the first American capture of an enemy surface vessel in the war.[2] President Franklin D. Roosevelt had frequently asserted that Germany would try to gain a foothold in Greenland, and the way this was presented seems to bear him out. It was a notable early initiative in the North Atlantic weather war.
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