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M/S Anatina To Anatina on the "Ships starting with A" page. Some pictures of crew members have been added to Page 2
Manager: M. Chr. Stray, Kristiansand Delivered Jan. 10-1939 from Öresundsvarvet A/B, Landskrona, Sweden as Anatina to Skibs-A/S Anatina (M. Chr. Stray), Kristiansand. 5052 gt, 9500 tdwt, 430.6' x 57.2' x 22.5 ' (loa), 4 x 6 cyl. 2 tev Atlas Diesel, 4400 bhp (geared to 1 propeller), - 14 knots. Captain: Anstein Dvergsnes. Related item on this website: According to the book "Våre falne", Anatina's messboy Henrik Undheim died following an illness on Sept. 24-1940, when the ship was en route to Capetown. He was 22 years old. Tormod Gjertsen told me he was the one who made the canvas bag in which he was lowered into the sea by him and the boatswain (but gives the date of death as Febr. 21-1940). There's more about this further down on this page. He says Anstein Dvergsnes was the 2nd mate at that time. The messboy is commemorated at the Memorial for Seamen in Stavern, Norway - ref. external link at the end of this page.
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Tormod joined Anatina in Sweden as ordinary seaman on Jan. 4-1940. He says their first voyage took them to Denmark and from there to 2 cities in Venezuela, before going to miscellaneous places on the west coast of South America. She visited Vladivostok in Russia, then crossed the Pacific, through the Panama Canal and on to Hamburg, where cargo was unloaded and new cargo loaded. Several crew members left the ship while in Hamburg. Cargo was again loaded in Denmark, having stopped at Landskrona for repairs. She then headed back to Venezuela, on to the U.S., Japan, Bombay, Madras, Singapore and Calcutta, back to Baltimore, New Orleans and Houston, and visited several ports on the east coast of the U.S. before heading back to the Far East. From there back to Vancouver and on to Capetown. She also stopped at Durban, travelling from there to Calcutta and visited Bombay and Madras again. She made another voyage to Capetown before returning to Baltimore, where Tormod paid off on Nov. 9-1940. He also mentions the incident when Messboy Henrik Undheim got sick, saying that Anatina was in Calcutta at the time and he was admitted to a hospital there. After having finished loading a cargo in Calcutta they went to Madras, where the messboy came back on board, but was still not well, so he was given one of the passenger cabins to recuperate, but he died. Tormod gives the date as Febr. 21-1940, but as mentioned further up on this page, "Våre Falne" gives the date as Sept. 24-1940, adding that the ship was en route to Capetown, and this date fits better with her voyages. Tormod was asked to sew a bag out of canvas for him, in which he was "buried" in the sea.
Tormod mentions one of the oilers, Odd Knutsen, who got very sick. They had a Swedish lady as passenger on board, who had been with them for several months, and she took care of him every day, while other crew members, including Tormod, nursed him during the night. He ended up in a hospital in Capetown and it turned out he suffered from Tuberculosis, but fully recovered and later settled in South Africa where he married one of the nurses and worked in the gold mine industry. Odd Knutsen died in 1995 (see also Page 2), while Tormod died in Dec.-2007, not long after I had visited him and the other veterans in Kristiansand, Norway.
Anatina is said to have arrived Naples from Port Said via Augusta on May 26-1944 with a cargo of foodstuffs - the Voyage Record gives arrival Naples as May 23. While there, 6 British gunners and 5 seamen came on board to aid in her self defence before she on May 29 departed for Anzio (this voyage is not mentioned in the above record). According to gunnery officer G. Wennberg, Anzio endured 4 air attacks on May 31, 1 on June 3 and 2 on June 7, though each time the aircraft were driven back by the land batteries before they could reach the harbour area, until just after midnight of June 10 when about 50 German aircraft attacked the harbour. In spite of several bombs being dropped no direct hits were achieved by the aircraft, which due to the fire from the land batteries and ships could not fly low. Anatina departed for Naples that same day, where the British men disembarked. At the end of that month we find her in Convoy KMS 54, voyage Bone to Port Said. This convoy, which arrived Port Said on July 3-1944, will be added to my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all KMS convoys.
Anatina was sold in Sept.-1961 to Einar M. Gaard A/S and Sigurd Haavik A/S (Einar M. Gaard A/S mgr.), Haugesund and renamed Gardøy. In worldwide tramping service and seasonal lumber trade. Taken over by Einar M. Gaard A/S (alone) in the summer of 1965. Arrived Haugesund Mekaniske Verksted, Haugesund in Jan. 1967 for sale, and delivered in May-1967 as Ela to Ships Mediterranean Lines West Africa Ltd., Haifa, Israel. From June 6-1970 she sailed as Armadora for Meridional Armadora S.A., Panama. Sold in Dec.-1971 to Taiwanese breakers, renamed Viva X and arrived Kaohsiung on Febr. 29-1972. Related external links: 2 who died on board - Carpenter Emil Nettum is listed as having died at sea on Jan. 15-1944 due to illness. No cause or date is given for Messboy Henrik Undheim, but the book "Våre falne" states that he died following an illness on Sept. 24-1940, when the ship was en route to Capetown. He was 22 years old. See the text further up on this page. The Australian War Memorial also has a picture of this ship, taken at Fremantle in 1941. It can be found by running a search through their collection search page, with Second World War in the field for "Conflict". Back to Anatina on the "Ships starting with A" page. This company had previously had another Anatina, built 1918. This was a tanker delivered as War Hermit to the Shipping Controller, managed by Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London, owned by the latter from 1919. Renamed Anatina in 1921. Sold to Skibs A/S Anatina (M. Chr. Stray), Kristiansand in 1927. Renamed Mindanao in 1938 for Fernandos Hermanos, Manila, attacked by aircraft and sunk in Manila during the war - later salvaged by the Japanese and renamed Palembang Maru in 1942. Torpedoed and sunk by USS Baya on March 4-1945. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Våre motorskip", Leif M. Bjørkelund & E. H. Kongshavn, and misc. (ref. My sources).
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