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Dageid 

 

Official Number:                      N/R

Laid down:

Builder:                                  A/S Akers Mekaniske Verkstads, Oslo

Launched:                              17 March 1931

Into Service:                           WW2

Out of service:                        WW2

Fate:                                       25 January 1959  broken up

Items of historic interest involving this ship: –

 

Background Data:   One of a group of additional Norwegian flagged ships  which served as Escort Oilers during WW2

 

Career Data:

17 March 1931 launched by A/S Akers Mekaniske Verkstads, Oslo as Yard Nr 451 named DAGEID
for A/S Ocean (John P Pedersen & Son, Managers) Oslo
May 1931 completed
1 September 1934 at Flusing near Hansweerd while on passage from Curacao to Antwerp
 in collision with Greek ship Rokos which was on passage from Bahia Blanca to Antwerp.
Both ships suffered damage. Dageid holed at number 11 tank cargo running out – source
Lloyds Casualty reports
 
29 August 1939 arrived at Port Said
9 April 1940 was on passage from Antwerp to Trinidad when War broke out in Norway
WW2 fitted as and served as an Escort Oiler, name unchanged
17 June 1940 sailed Marseilles in convoy P6 to Oran arriving 20 June 1940
 
28 June 1940 sailed Gibraltar in escorted convoy HG36 to the River Clyde arriving 10 July 1940

17 November 1940 sailed Liverpool in escorted convoy OB244 until its dispersal on 22 November 1940 

23 December 1941 sailed Liverpool in escorted convoy OS15 to Bathurst arriving 13 January 1942

 31 October 1942 sailed Cristobal in convoy ZC3 to Curaçao arriving 5 November 1942

12 November 1942 sailed Curaçao in escorted convoy TAG20 to Guantanamo arriving on 15

November 1942

16 November 1942 sailed Guantanamo in unescorted convoy GN20 to New York arriving 23

November 1942

4 December 1942 sailed New York in escorted convoy SC112 to Belfast Lough arriving 24

December 1942

26 November 1943 sailed Loch Ewe in convoy ON 213 to Philadelphia arriving 14 December

1943 – acted as an escort oiler during this convoy

6 January 1944 sailed New York in convoy HX274 for Liverpool but was in collision with the Dutch  tanker Erinna and put into Bay Bulls. The Dageid suffered damage to her steering gear from the collision. The Dutch tanker as well as collision damage also caught fire – source Admiralty War Diary of 13 January 1944 page 226 and the ships log for USS Kiowa (AT72) which went to provide assistance to both ships. This collision result in action being taken in the Admiralty Division of the High Court in London and a claim against the owners of the Dageid for a sum not exceeding £46,138 14sh 6d – reported in the Times newspapers of the 29 January 1948 and 12 February 1948

 

1955  purchased by Wahl & Co, Oslo and renamed TUSKEN

1955  purchased by Urania Transportation Co Inc (E.K. Harkna, Manager) Monrovia and

renamed URANIA

25 January 1959 arrived Rotterdam for demolition by H P Heuvelmann