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| Involvement in education starts The company's involvement in the education of the young starts in 1906, when Ditlev Lauritzen makes loans to some "diligent young and impecunious" men from Esbjerg and Fanø to complete their studies. |
J. Lauritzen founded In 1914, Ditlev Lauritzen moves to Copenhagen with his family and sets up the shipping company J. Lauritzen. |
Vesterhavet continues business expansion In the years after WWI, Vesterhavet operates in the Baltic and North Sea but gradually extends into the Mediterranean and, in the 1930s, to the Atlantic. Ashore, the company engages in the refrigeration and engineering industry. |
1st training vessel purchased Ditlev Lauritzen buys a schooner, which he converts into a sail training vessel called the Fanø. |