M/S Anatina
Updated Febr. 14-2011

To Anatina on the "Ships starting with A" page.

Some pictures of crew members have been added to Anatina - Page 2

Source: Gunnar Skiold's photo archive.


Post war picture of Anatina - received from Richard Naess, who served on her in 1960/'61.

The Australian War Memorial also has a picture of this ship, taken at Fremantle in 1941 (external links).

Voyage Record From Dec.-1941 to Sept.-1945:

(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database).

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on them

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
Please see the narrative further down on this page for details on some earlier voyages, translated from Tormod Gjertsen's story. Other voyages are also missing from this record
1941	Dec. 9	Port Said	Haifa	Dec. 10	Independent	Previously traded Pacific and Indian Ocean *Some earlier 1941 voyages: Page 1
	*Again, I believe the listing on Page 1 starts with July-1941, in other words, a document showing her 1940 voyages and earlier 1941 voyages appears to be missing. It'll also be noticed that the sailing dates have been cut off on the scan.
	Dec. 21	Haifa	Port Said	Dec. 22	Independent	On to Suez and Kosseir (Page 1)
1942	Jan. 4	Kosseir	Aden	Jan. 9	Independent	–
	Jan. 9	Aden	Fremantle	Jan. 31	Independent	–
	Febr. 1	Fremantle	Geelong	Febr. 8	Independent	–
	Febr. 10	Geelong	Melbourne	–	Independent	Page 1 gives arrival Febr. 11
	March 4	Melbourne	Whyalla	March 7	Independent	–
	March 8	Whyalla	Port Kembla	March 12	Independent	–
	March 14	Port Kembla	Sydney, N.S.W.*	March 14	Independent	*Arrived Newcastle N.S.W. (Page 1)
	March 31	Sydney, N.S.W.*	Fremantle	Apr. 9	Independent	*From Newcastle N.S.W., via Sydney N.S.W. March 22 (Page 1)
	Apr. 17	Fremantle	Geraldton	Apr. 19	Independent	–
	Apr. 29	Geraldton	Aden	May 18	Independent	–
	May 21	Aden	Suez	May 25	Independent	Later Port Said May 26 (Page 1)
	May 26	Port Said	Iskenderun	May 29	Independent	Notional sailing date
	June 10	Iskenderun	Port Said	–	Independent	Compare w/Page 1
	June 22	Kosseir	Aden	June 25	Independent	–
	June 25	Aden	Fremantle	July 15	Independent	–
	July 16	Fremantle	Port Lincoln	July 22	Independent	–
	July 23	Port Lincoln	Adelaide	July 24	Independent	–
	July 28	Adelaide	Wallaroo	July 29	Independent	–
	July 30	Wallaroo	Whyalla	July 31	Independent	–
	July 31	Whyalla	Melbourne	Aug. 3	Independent	–
	Aug. 5	Melbourne	Port Kembla	Aug. 9	OC 15	Convoy available at OC 15 (external link)
	Aug. 10	Port Kembla	Newcastle, N.S.W.	Aug. 11	Independent	–
	Aug. 12	Newcastle, N.S.W.	–	–	CO 18	Convoy available at CO 18 (external link)
	Aug. 16	Dispersed from CO 18	Adelaide	Aug. 17	Independent	–
	Aug. 23	Adelaide	Whyalla	Aug. 24	Independent	–
	Aug. 24	Whyalla	Melbourne	Aug. 27	Independent	–
	Aug. 29	Melbourne	Port Kembla	Sept. 1	OC 22	Convoy available at OC 22 (external link)
	Sept. 3	Port Kembla	Newcastle, N.S.W.	Sept. 4	Independent	–
	Sept. 6	Newcastle, N.S.W.	–	–	CO 25	Convoy available at CO 25 (external link)
	Sept. 10	Dispersed from CO 25	Adelaide	Sept. 11	Independent	–
	Sept. 14	Adelaide	Whyalla	Sept. 15	Independent	–
	Sept. 16	Whyalla	Melbourne	Sept. 19	Independent	–
	Sept. 19	Melbourne	Port Kembla	Sept. 22	OC 28	Convoy available at OC 28 (external link)
	Sept. 24	Port Kembla	Newcastle, N.S.W.	Sept. 24	Independent	–
	Sept. 28	Newcastle, N.S.W.	Sydney, N.S.W.	Sept. 29	Independent	–
	Oct. 1	Sydney, N.S.W.	Suva	Oct. 8	Independent	–
	Dec. 2	Suva	Vancouver	–	Independent	Page 2 gives arrival Dec. 21
1943	Jan. 11	Vancouver	San Francisco	Jan. 14	Independent	–
	Febr. 1	San Francisco	Los Angeles	Febr. 3	Independent	–
	March 8*	Los Angeles	Melbourne	–	Independent	*Should be Febr. 8, arrived Melbourne March 8 (Page 2)
	March 25	Melbourne	Fremantle	–	Independent	Page 2 gives arrival Apr. 1
	Apr. 8	Fremantle	Whyalla	Apr. 13	Independent	–
	Apr. 18	Whyalla	Port Kembla	Apr. 23	Independent	–
	Apr. 28	Port Kembla	Sydney, N.S.W.	Apr. 30	Independent	Notional sailing date Page 2 gives Apr. 30, arrived Newcastle N.S.W.
	May 9	Sydney, N.S.W.*	Antofagasta	June 1	Independent	*From Newcastle, N.S.W. (Page 2)
	June 12	Antofagasta	Tocopilla	June 12	Independent	–
	June 19	Tocopilla	Wellington	July 13	Independent	–
	July 13	Wellington	Melbourne	July 19	Independent	–
	Aug. 1	Melbourne	Fremantle	Aug. 8	Independent	Left Fremantle for Aden, Aug. 19 (Page 2).
	Sept. 8	Aden	Suez	Sept. 28	Independent	A. Hague says: "Arrival date confusing" Page 3 gives Sept. 14 (also, missing voyages)
	Oct. 12	Kosseir	Aden	Oct. 16	Independent	–
	Oct. 18	Aden	–	–	AB 17	Convoy available at AB 17 (external link)
	Oct. 27	Detached from AB 17	Port Lincoln	–	Independent	–
	Nov. 19	Port Lincoln	Wallaroo	Nov. 19	Independent	–
	Nov. 25	Wallaroo	Adelaide	Nov. 26	Independent	–
	Dec. 18	Adelaide	Aden	Jan. 12-1944	Independent	–
1944	Jan. 12	Aden	Suez	Jan. 17	Independent	Left Suez Jan. 27 (Page 3).
	Jan. 31	Kosseir	Aden	–	Independent	–
	Febr. 7	Aden	–	–	AB 30	Convoy available at AB 30 (external link)
	Febr. 15	Detached from AB 30	Melbourne	March 8	Independent	Missing movements, Page 3
	Apr. 7	Melbourne	Fremantle	Apr. 14	Independent	–
	Apr. 16	Fremantle	Aden	May 7	Independent	–
	May 7	Aden	Suez	–	Independent	–
	May 14	Port Said	Augusta	May 19	GUS 40	Convoy available at GUS 40 (external link)
	May 22	Augusta	Naples	May 23	VN 41	Convoy available at VN 41 (external link) Again, see also Page 3 (and narrative below)
	June 16	Naples	Augusta	June 17	NV 46	Convoy available at NV 46 (external link)
	June 18	Augusta	Bone	June 21	GUS 43	Convoy available at GUS 43 (external link)
	June 26	Bone	Port Said	July 3	KMS 54	Convoy will be added See ships in KMS convoys
	July 4	Suez	Aden	July 10	Independent	–
	July 11	Aden	Fremantle	Aug. 5	Independent	–
	Aug. 22	Fremantle	Whyalla	–	Independent	Page 3 gives arrival Aug. 27
	Aug. 27	Whyalla	Sydney, N.S.W.*	Sept. 2	Independent	*Arrived Newcastle, N.S.W.
	Sept. 10*	Sydney, N.S.W.*	Melbourne	Sept. 11	Independent	*From Newcastle, N.S.W., Sept. 6 (Page 3). Collision with Br. Wear, sunk Sept. 8
	Nov. 22	Melbourne	Colombo	Dec. 11	Independent	–
	Dec. 26	Colombo	Aden	Jan. 2-1945	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 3	Aden	Suez*	–	Independent	*For Kosseir (Page 3).
	Jan. 10	Kosseir	Aden	Jan. 14	Independent	–
	Jan. 16	Aden	Fremantle	Febr. 5	Independent	–
	Febr. 25	Fremantle	Bunbury	Febr. 26	Independent	Missing voyages? (see Page 4).
	March 7	Bunbury	Fremantle	–	Independent	(Had arrived Bunbury March 7) Page 4 gives arrival Fremantle March 7
	March 13	Fremantle	Geraldton	March 14	Independent	–
	March 22	Geraldton	Sydney, N.S.W.	March 30	Independent	–
	Apr. 15	Sydney, N.S.W.	Port Kembla	Apr. 16	Independent	–
	Apr. 21	Port Kembla	Fremantle	Apr. 29	Independent	–
	May 13	Fremantle	Geraldton	May 14	Independent	–
	May 20	Geraldton	Melbourne	May 26	Independent	–
	June 6	Melbourne	Fremantle	June 12	Independent	–
	June 25	Fremantle	Geraldton	June 26	Independent	–
	July 7	Geraldton	Port Lincoln	July 11	Independent	–
	July 14	Port Lincoln	Melbourne	July 16	Independent	–
	July 29	Melbourne	Port Pirie	July 31	Independent	–
	Aug. 8	Port Pirie	Port Lincoln	Aug. 9	Independent	–
	Aug. 20	Port Lincoln	Melbourne	Aug. 22	Independent	–
	Sept. 11	Melbourne	Bunbury	–	Independent	Page 4 gives arrival Sept. 17. Also, shows subsequent voyages.

Some earlier voyages:

Translated from Tormod Gjertsen's story.

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.

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 has told me he was the one who made the canvas bag in which he was lowered into the sea by him and the boatswain. 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.

Tormod says that Anatina was in Calcutta when the messboy got sick 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 above, "Våre Falne" gives the date as Sept. 24-1940.

I'm assuming this is from Henrik Undheim's "funeral"

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 Anatina - Page 2), while Tormod died in Dec.-2007, not long after I had visited him and the other veterans in Kristiansand, Norway.

1944:

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, as does Page 3 of the archive documents. 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. 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.

Later 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.

POST WAR:

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 link:
Stavern Memorial commemorations - 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 narrative further up on this page.

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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).