Axel Ingwersen was a winner of the 1924 Blue Water Medal for his sailing trip where he departed Shanghai on February 20, 1923, and arrived in Denmark past the

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in May 1924. He was sailing a

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, built by native laborers. He had a crew of three with him. He was in 1933 the Chief Officer of the C.S. Pacific based in Shanghai, a cable steamer involved in undersea cable maintenance owned by the Great Northern Telegraph Co. Ltd of 4 Avenue Edward VII, Shanghai.

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{{reflist Blue Water Medal recipients