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D/S Dalvangen To Dalvangen on the "Ships starting with D" page. Owner: Skibs-A/S Karaibien Built in Danzig 1931. Captain: Peter O. Petersen.
According to the captain's own statements (found in "Nortraship's flåte") Dalvangen was on a voyage between Port of Spain and Paramaribo in Dec.-1942 when they spotted some red flashes. Having been warned about U-boats using such measures to attract merchant ships, they continued for a while, but after some hesitation they set course for the lights with guns and lifebelts at the ready. On approaching, they discovered 23 British survivors who had been in a lifeboat for 9 days following the loss of their ship. They were taken to Georgetown, British Guiana. Name of their torpedoed ship is not given, but according to a posting to my Ship Forum Dalvangen rescued survivors from Empire Arnold (this is a recent response to an old thread which starts here). However, note that this ship was sunk much earlier than the date given in the captain's statement (by U-155 on Aug. 4-1942), so unless there's a date mix-up in the Norwegian source(?), Dalvangen appears to have rescued survivors on more than one occasion that year(?). Note also that one of the responses to the forum query states that Dalvangen had departed Trinidad for Paramaribo on Aug. 12-1942, and that the survivors were landed there on Aug. 15. Tony Cooper, who posted that particular message, adds that there were 47 survivors in all, and that Lawrendoc, which had left Trinidad on Aug. 9 also rescued survivors on Aug. 11 and landed them at Demerara the following day. Also, just for info, a message in my Guestbook from March 25-2001 states the following: On Jan. 10 -1943 Dalvangen picked up 21 survivors in a lifeboat from the American ship Collingsworth, torpedoed and sunk by U-124 in Convoy TB 1 the day before. According to a visitor to my site the survivors were landed at Paramaribo the next day. Dalvangen had left Trinidad on Jan. 8 for Paramaribo. Another 34 survivors had been picked up from rafts and debris by PC-577 and also landed at Paramaribo, 12 had died, including the captain. Related external links (Uboat.net): Back to Dalvangen on the "Ships starting with D" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, and misc. other as named within the above text.
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