M/T Evita

To Evita on the "Ships starting with E" page.


Source: Markus Berger (see Swiss Ships - external link).

Misc. War Voyages:

According to the first external website that I've linked to at the end of this text, Evita sailed in Convoy SL 54 from Freetown to the U.K. in Nov.-1940. She was bound for Liverpool and sailed in station 83 of the convoy. The Norwegian Lincoln Ellsworth and Norse King are also listed.

Evita was in in station 114 of the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 140 in July-1941 (having cancelled from HX 139) together with the Norwegian Madrono (112), Boreas (16), Velox (56), Velma (96), Alaska (106), Stiklestad (95), Vardefjell (84), Thorshov (83), Olaf Bergh (124), Skiensfjord (97), Ferncastle (113), Thorshavet (43), Bonneville (82) and Helgøy (77). Beth and Petter were also initially in this convoy but left due to engine problems. Evita returned accross the Atlantic the following month with the westbound Convoy ON 9; her destination was New York, station 22, then shows up at the end of Sept. among the ships in the eastbound Convoy HX 152. However, it appears she was cancelled and instead joined the slow Convoy SC 48 on Oct. 5, in which several Norwegian ships were sunk, one of them being Erviken.

She's also listed in Convoy HX 173 in Febr.-1942, again in the company of many other Norwegian ships. According to Arnold Hague ("The Allied Convoy System"), Evita was involved in a collision with the Russian Dvinoles, while Roger W. Jordan's "The world's Merchant fleets" says the Russian vessel sank following a collision with Havprins.

On March 4-1942 she joined Convoy OS 21, voyaging from Clyde to Aruba in ballast in station 35 of the convoy. Follow the external link below for more convoy details. In May that same year Evita was back in Halifax, where she joined the slow Convoy SC 83 on May 7. Later that year, in Oct.-1942, she was scheduled for Convoy HX 213, but instead joined the next convoy, HX 214 (station 91, bound for Avonmouth).

It looks like Evita was scheduled for Convoy HX 225 (New York-U.K.) at the end of Jan.-1943, but cancelled (crossed out from station 122, cargo of diesel oil). She may have joined Convoy UGS 5 for Gibraltar or North Africa instead? (this convoy left Hampton Roads on Febr. 7-1943, arrived Oran on the 26th). I suggest this, because Charles Hocking (see "My Sources") says the following: "The American steamship Pan Royal, Capt. W. B. Johnson, was in convoy (UGS 5) in the North Atlantic on February 9th, 1943, when she collided with the motor vessel Evita, 6346 tons, and the steamship George Davis, 7177 tons. She sank with the loss of eight men. Capt. Johnson was among the survivors". This incident is not mentioned in any of my Norwegian sources so I can't say for sure whether this Evita is the same ship as listed here, but the tonnage is exactly the same, so it's very likely.

In May-1943 she was one of several Norwegian ships in Convoy HX 238 from New York, bound for Dingle with pool gas oil, station 92. She was scheduled for Convoy HX 246 that summer, but did not sail; instead she joined HX 248, leaving New York on July 15-1943.

In Apr.-1944 she's listed in the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 287.

POST WAR:

Sold in 1957 to Typaldos Bros, Piraeus, Greece and renamed Irinicos. Laid up at Uddevalla from Sept. 7-1957. Sold to Belgian breakers and arrived Antwerp June 15-1959.

Related external links:
SL Convoys - There's also has a section on the OS and OS/KMS convoys. As will be seen, Evita is listed in Convoy SL 54, as well as in Convoy OS 21.

Lillesand Sjømannsforening has a picture of this ship (scroll down to the letter E).

Back to Evita on the "Ships starting with E" page.

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Misc. sources as named within text (ref. My sources). Sources for information on the convoys are listed on each convoy page.