Official Number:                       N/R

Laid down:

Builder:                                   Deutsche Werft A.G. Betrieb Reiherstiegwerft, Hamburg

Launched:                               28 July 1938

Into Service:                            WW2

Out of service:                         WW2

Fate:                                      1964 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:

August 1938  completed

12 October 1938 passed the Lloyds Signal Station on the Lizard steaming eastwards

3 March 1939 sailed Falmouth

25 September 1939 sailed Lisbon independently to Weymouth Bay arriving 29 September 1939

19 December 1939 sailed Halifax in convoy HXF13 with a cargo of crude oil to Dunkirk arriving 30 December 1939

8 January 1940 sailed Dunkirk independently to Trinidad arriving 23 January 1940

23 January 1940 sailed Trinidad independently to New York arriving 5 February 1940

9 April 1940 was on passage from Aruba to Halifax when War broke out in Norway

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

15 March 1941 when under tow in the River Clyde by the tug Warrior – the tug struck a mine and damaged

6 July 1941 sailed Milford Haven to join Convoy OB 343 which departed Liverpool that same day