Sounds good Mark! I looked back to the beginning of this chapter to see what I had translated it at, but I like your 'Trial of Luck' better than my 'Test of Luck'.

But then, the German name of the ship was used in the translation. According to AI the name in the Norwegian Færgestedet (1928) could have been «Lykkens Prøve» and the sentence could have been: Han var atten år den gang, den yngste jungmann om bord på «Lykkens Prøve» (unconfirmed). I could not find a free copy of the Norwegian online to confirm this. Bottom line, if a German name for the ship is acceptable in a German translation, then an English name should be acceptable in an English translation. "The Trial of Luck"?

I agree Mark, keeping the original name is probably the best idea.

ChatGPT suggests: He was eighteen then, the youngest crewman on the 'Glücksprobe.' It's suggested that Glücksprobe is the name of a ship and leave it untranslated.

Thanks, Wendy.

Mark and Tom, Thinking about a translation for 'Glücksprobe', I wonder if one could use 'Fortune seeker' ?