Requisitioned Auxiliary – Bralanta

 

BRALANTAR

 

Official Number:                     N/R

Laid down:

Builder:                                    Kockums Mekaniske Verkstads A/B, Malmo

Launched:                               15 August 1936

Into Service:                            WW2

Out of service:                         WW2

Fate:                                         8 June 1962 broken up 

 

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

 

Background Data:  One of an additional group of Norwegian flagged ships which served  during WW2 as escort oilers

 

Career Data:

15 August 1936 launched by Lockums Mekaniske Verkstads A/B, Malmo as Yard Nr: 191 named BRALANTA for A/S Bralanta (Ludwig G Braathen, Manger) Oslo

September 1936 completed

WW2 fitted as and served as an Escort Oiler – name unchanged

9 April 1940 was on passage from Los Angles to Yokohama when war broke out in Norway

1 July 1941 sailed Christobal independently to New York arriving 17 July 1941

17 August 1941 sailed New York independently to Halifax arriving 19 August 1941

29 August 1941 sailed Halifax in escorted convoy HX147 with a cargo of crude oil to Liverpool arriving 12 September 1941

19 September 1941 sailed Liverpool in escorted convoy ON18 until dispersal on 2 October 1941 then independently to Curacao arriving 12 October 1941

14 February 1944 in collision with the American tanker SHARPSBURG in Queens Channel off Liverpool and fire broke out aboard both ships. Subsequently repaired

8 June 1962 arrived Sakai for demolition by Japanese ship breakers