D/S Drammensfjord - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945

Some Convoy Voyages – 1940-1945:

According to the first external website that I've linked to at the end of this page, Drammensfjord was scheduled for convoy SLS 46 (Freetown-U.K.) on Sept. 1-1940, but did not sail. She shows up again in SL 49 later that month. This convoy had joined up on Oct. 12 with Convoy SLS 49, which had departed Freetown on Sept. 24, and in which Drammensfjord had originally sailed. She had station 85 in the combined convoy and was bound for Belfast.

The same site also has her in Convoy OB 269, which left Liverpool on Jan. 3-1941 and dispersed on the 6th, as well as in Convoy HX 110 in Febr.-1941. As will be seen, she's not mentioned on my own page for this convoy, but my information is incomplete (Bermuda portion only is available). In Apr. that year she's listed as bound for San Pedro Macoris in Convoy OB 307, departing Liverpool on Apr. 7, dispersed on Apr. 13. She subsequently returned to the U.K. in May with Convoy HX 128 (Bermuda portion). In July she shows up, with destination Panama, in Convoy OB 346, which left Liverpool on July 14-1941 - again, please follow the links provided below for more infomation on these OB convoys.

In Sept.-1941 we find Drammensfjord in station 106 of the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 152, together with the Norwegian Høegh Giant (92), Beth (44), Evita (93), Trondheim (95), Salamis (84), and Storanger (83), all listed on this website (Drammensfjord is listed as scheduled for the slow Sydney, C.B.-U.K. Convoy SC 48 at the beginning of Oct., but as mentioned, she had already sailed in the HX convoy). HX 152 left Halifax on Sept. 28 and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 14. The following month she joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 34, which left Liverpool on Nov. 7-1941.

Going back to the external site already mentioned, she's listed among the ships in Convoy SL 101, which departed Freetown on Febr. 21-1942 and arrived Liverpool on March 15 (see also my page about Convoy SC 71). Her cargo is given as wheat and linseed, and she had station 123 of the convoy, destination Belfast. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Dagrun, Elin K., Tabor and Tanafjord - again, see the external link below. The following month she shows up, with no voyage information, in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 86*, which left Liverpool on Apr. 14-1942.

The site about the SL convoys also has her in Convoy SL 137 / MKS 26, bound for Loch Ewe, cargo of chrome ore and general. SL 137 had left Freetown on Sept. 23-1943, joined up with MKS 26* from Gibraltar on Oct. 5 (in which Drammensfjord sailed) and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 17 (the Norwegian Jenny and Olaf Bergh are also listed). The Gibraltar portion of this convoy is also available at MKS 26 on my own website, where her destination is given as Middlesbrough. Note that she also appears in the second table on that page, where we learn that she had come from Alexandria. In Dec. that same year she's listed as going in the other direction in station 92 of Convoy OS 61 / KMS 35*, voyage Clyde-Malta with vehicles and stores (sailing in the Gibraltar portion).

In Jan.-1944 she made a voyage from Malta to Gibraltar in Convoy MKS 37, then returned to the U.K. in Febr.-1944 in Convoy SL 149 / MKS 40, joining from Gibraltar with the MKS* convoy (Febr. 22-1944), arriving Liverpool on March 7.

In June-1944 she's listed in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 241*, departing Liverpool on June 18, arriving New York on July 2. No destination is given for Drammensfjord. She headed back to the U.K. at the end of Aug.-1944 in Convoy HX 306 from New York, bound for Greenock with a cargo of sugar, returning with the westbound Convoy ONS 33*, which left Liverpool on Sept. 29 and arrived Halifax on Oct. 14 - Drammensfjord, however, was bound for New York on that occasion. In Dec. that same year we find her in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 162, cargo of sugar and pulp for Greenock.

Early in 1945 she was in Convoy OS 108 / KMS 82, which departed Liverpool on Febr. 1. She was on a voyage from Clyde to Augusta for Taranto in station 71 (again sailing in the Gibraltar portion - KMS 82*). Boreas was also scheduled, but instead joined the next convoy. The external site below has further dates and more info. In March-1945 Drammensfjord is listed in Convoy MKS 89*, departing Gibraltar on March 16, arriving Liverpool on the 24th.

*All the ON and ONS convoys are now available and will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, along with further details on each. In the meantime, please go to the convoys mentioned above in the section listing ships in all ON convoys and the page naming ships in all ONS convoys. All the KMS and MKS convoys will also be added; for now, the ships sailing them are named in the section listing ships in all KMS convoys, and ships in all MKS convoys.

POST WAR:

Sold to E. Szabados, Italy in 1949 and renamed Luciano. Arrived under tow at La Spezia on Sept. 3-1959 for scrapping by S.p.A. Cantieri Navali Santa Maria.

Related external links:
SL / MKS Convoys - There's also has a section on the OS and OS/KMS convoys going in the other direction. As will be seen, Drammensfjord is mentioned in Convoy SLS 46, SLS 49, SL 49, SL 101, SL 137 / MKS 26, OS 61/KMS 35, SL 149/MKS 40 and OS 108/KMS 82.

Note also that by going to this section of the same site and clicking on "Ship Search", using "Drammensfjord" as keyword, several convoys that are not mentioned in my own text will come up, including several convoys from Durban (DN convoys), as well as some local U.K. convoys and others. Here are OB 269, HX 110, OB 307, and OB 346, all mentioned in my text above.

Norway Heritage Project has quite a bit of information on the NAL vessels.