{"id":7392,"date":"2025-05-22T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/norway-homeowner-wakes-up-to-find-440-foot-ship-ran-aground-on-his-doorstep-its-a-very-bulky-new-neighbor\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:24:37","slug":"norway-homeowner-wakes-up-to-find-440-foot-ship-ran-aground-on-his-doorstep-its-a-very-bulky-new-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/norway-homeowner-wakes-up-to-find-440-foot-ship-ran-aground-on-his-doorstep-its-a-very-bulky-new-neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway homeowner wakes up to find 440-foot ship ran aground on his doorstep: “It’s a very bulky new neighbor”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man in Norway awoke early Thursday to discover a huge container ship had run aground a stone’s throw from his fjord-side house \u2014 and he had slept through the commotion.<\/p>\n

For an as-yet unknown reason, the 443-foot NCL Salten sailed up onto shore just meters from Johan Helberg’s house in a fjord near Trondheim in central Norway.<\/p>\n

Helberg only discovered the unexpected visitor when a panicked neighbor who had repeatedly rung his doorbell to no avail gave up and called him on the phone.<\/p>\n

“The doorbell rang at a time of day when I don’t like to open,” Helberg told television channel TV2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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People stand near a container ship, which almost hit a house, in Trondheim, Norway, May 22, 2025. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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His neighbor, Jostein Jorgensen, said he was roused at around 5 a.m. local time by the sound of a ship heading at full speed toward land and immediately ran to Helberg’s house.<\/p>\n

“I was sure that he was already outside, but no, there was no sign of life. I rang the doorbell many times and nothing … And it was only when I called him on the phone that I managed to contact him,” Jorgensen told TV2.<\/p>\n

Several hours later, the massive red and green container ship was still stuck near the wooden house, waiting to be refloated.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very bulky new neighbor but it will soon go away,” Helberg said.<\/p>\n

The ship reportedly caused damage to a heating pipe in Helberg’s cabin, TV2 reported, but the homeowner told the station it could have been much worse.<\/p>\n

“If the ship had hit the rocky cliff right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard,” he told TV2<\/a>. “It wasn’t many meters off.”<\/p>\n

None of the 16 crew members were injured in the incident, the cause of which is being investigated by Norwegian police.<\/p>\n

Bente Hetland, the CEO of the shipping company that owns the NCL Salten, told TV2 that the same ship ran aground twice before — once in 2023 in Hadsel and once in 2024, in \u00c5lesund.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An areal view shows a 135-meter-long container ship by the shore in the Trondheimsfjord outside Byneset by Trondheim, Norway, on May 22, 2025, after it ran aground almost hitting a house.<\/span><\/p>\n

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