Owner: D/S A/S Storfjeld
Manager: Harald Grieg Martens, Bergen
Tonnage: 1355 gt, 2200 tdwt.
Call Sign: LDVC

Built by C. van der Giessen & Zonen´s Scheepswerven NV, Krimpen, Netherlands in 1921.

Captain: Haakon Næss

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

Errors may exist, and some voyages may be missing.

Follow the convoy links provided for more details on them - other Norwegian ships also took part.

Fanefjeld is listed in the U.K.-Norway Convoy ON 9 at the end of Jan.-1940. A month later she's listed in Convoy HN 14 from Norway to the U.K., and in March we find her in Convoy ON 21 to Norway, returning to the U.K. early the following month with Convoy HN 25 - in other words, she got out of Norway just before the German invasion (Apr. 9). See also Page 1.

Together with Ravnefjell, she later joined Convoy OA 201, departing Methil on Aug. 18-1940, dispersed on the 22nd, Fanefjeld arriving Sydney, C.B. independently on Sept. 3. This convoy is available at the external link below. She was scheduled to return to the U.K. with Convoy SC 7 which lost so many ships in Oct.-1940 (including Snefjeld of the same company), but Fanefjeld did not sail. She was also cancelled from the next convoy, SC 8, but eventually got away with Convoy SC 9 on Oct. 24.

In Febr.-1941, she's listed as bound for Seville in Convoy OG 52*, which originated in Liverpool on Febr. 5. Fanefjeld arrived Seville on Febr. 24, having joined from Oban. She headed back to the U.K. again on March 15 with the Gibraltar-U.K. Convoy HG 56, together with Rimfakse. According to the Advance Sailing Telegram for this convoy, Fanefjeld had a cargo of pyrites and oranges for Middlesbrough, station 42. She arrived Oban on March 31, later proceeding to Middlesbrough, with arrival there Apr. 8. Later that month, she joined Convoy OG 60*, originating in Liverpool on Apr. 26. Fanefjeld again joined from Oban, arriving Seville on May 11. The Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, Inga I, Marit, Nueva Granada, Snar, Spinanger and Varangberg are also listed. Some of them, including Fanefjeld, returned to the U.K. at the end of May in Convoy HG 63 from Gibraltar. Her destination on that occasion is given as Aberdeen, cargo of iron pyrites, station 22, sailing between Henrik Ibsen and Varangberg. (See also Page 2 of the archive documents).

Fanefjeld later made a voyage to Sydney, C.B., where she arrived on July 22-1941, having left Loch Ewe on July 8 in Convoy OB 343, which was dispersed July 21. She headed back to the U.K. on Aug. 24 with the slow Convoy SC 41, together with Akabahra, Astra, Audun, Balduin, Blink, Carrier (returned), Einvik (sunk - follow link for details), Evviva, Fagersten, Grado, Gudrun, Heien, Hestmanden, Hildur I, Ledaal, Leka, Lom, Marga, Nesttun, Orania (returned), Reiaas, Siak and Spes. This convoy is also available at the external website that I've linked to below - see also ships in all SC convoys.

In Oct.-1941 she's listed as bound for Iceland in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 27*. She arrived Reykjavik on Oct. 23, having sailed from Loch Ewe on the 18th.

She made another voyage to Iceland in Febr.-1942 with Convoy UR 12 (left Loch Ewe on Febr. 8, arrived Reykjavik on the 13th), then returned to the U.K. on Febr. 24 with Convoy RU 13, bound for Glasgow (see Page 3 of the archive documents). The following month, she's listed in Convoy UR 17 to Reykjavik, where she arrived on March 31 - according to the archive document, she was bound for North Russia.

* The OG convoys will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in them (and escorts) are named on the page listing ships in all OG convoys. The ON convoys will also be added, but for now, see the section listing ships in all ON convoys.

Related external links:
Convoy OA 201 - The site also has information on OB 343, SC 41, UR 12, and UR 17.