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Built by: Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw, Amsterdam    Completed: 1928

Manager: Westfal-Larsen & Co, A/S, Bergen

Tonnage: 9,551 grt, 15,530 dwt

Length: 474.4 feet

Beam: 64.5 feet

Draught: 36.5 feet

Machinery: 2 x 12 cylinder diesel engines

Speed: 11 knots

In Admiralty Service (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) from 1941

The ship sailed from the Clyde on 14 February 1942 to join convoy ON.67, Liverpool to Halifax.  Finnanger was torpedoed by U 158 ( Korvettan Luitenant Erwin Rostin) at 11.33 hrs on the 3rd March 1942, in position 38º 40’ N  58º 38’ W and sank after4 hours and 45 minutes with the loss of the entire crew of 35 Norwegian, 3 British and 1 Canadian seamen.

One of those lost – Galley Boy Bernard Stevens is remembered with pride on the Tower Hill memorial – panel 49 and one other Colour Sergeant William Thomas Whitmore, Royal Marines is remembered with pride on the Chatham Naval Memorial