The 160 survivors spent up to eight days in open lifeboats before rescue. According to Sebak's comprehensive account, the final death toll was 635, among them 225 Norwegian citizens. On 28 June 1904 the Danish passenger liner, SS Norge ran aground on the skerry, Hasselwood Rock, close to Rockall, on Helen's Reef in the North Atlantic. but returned to Norway during the summer of 1906. He emigrated to the United States in 1904. His childhood home, from which he got his surname at birth, was called Portåsen. His mother remained unmarried while his father married her younger sister. He was the son of Lauritz Portaas and Hanna Kristine Grosvold. Wildenvey was born at Mjøndalen in Nedre Eiker, near the city of Drammen in Buskerud, Norway.
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