Owner: Carl Olsens Tankrederi A/S
Manager: Carl Olsen, Arendal
Tonnage: 5237 gt

Built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough in 1910. Previous name: Berwindmoor until 1917. Originally ore ship, converted to tanker in 1923. Purchased by Carl Olsen in 1930.

Misc. War Voyages:

(More voyages will be added).

In March-1941 Buccinum, with a cargo of diesel oil for Manchester, was scheduled for the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 27, but instead joined the next convoy, SC 28, which left Halifax on Apr. 9. (She had also been cancelled from Convoy SC 26). In June that same year we find her in Convoy OB 337, which left Liverpool on June 20-1941 and dispersed on the 28th. Her destination is given as Aruba - see the first external link below; several Norwegian ships are listed.

Buccinum appears in a few MKS convoys in 1944. These will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, with more information on each. In the meantime, the ships sailing in them are named in the section listing ships in all MKS convoys, where Buccinum is listed in MKS 43, MKS 55, MKS 58 and MKS 66. See also the section for ships in KMS convoys, where Buccinum is included in KMS 45 and KMS 67.

More details on her war voyages will be added; in the meantime, please follow the instructions provided at the first external link below.

POST WAR:

Became Greek Theodora in 1947, owned (as per Rolf Skiold's message on my Ship Forum) by S. Elefteriades & G. Pappas, Piraeus (Mediterranean Shipping Agency). Another posting to my forum by Arild Engelsen adds that she ran aground on the north side of Marmara Island on Jan. 23-1955, voyage Odessa-Pireus with cargo of oil. Total loss, broken up on the spot. His source: Skipet 1/1997, & Skipet 2/1980.

Related external links:
Misc. convoys - By clicking on "Ship Search" on the left hand side, using "Buccinum" as keyword, several convoys will come up. As will be seen, she made some voyages to Bombay, among others. Here is OB 337, mentioned above.

1 who died on board - This man, Steward Karl Oskar Olsen from Arendal died at sea on Aug. 26-1941 following illness.

Lillesand Sjømannsforening's website (Lillesand Seamen's Association) has a picture of this ship, along with pictures of several other Norwegian ships.

Back to Buccinum on the "Ships starting with B" page.

This company later had another Buccinum post war. This ship sailed as Nueva Granada during the war.