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M/T Fenris To Fenris on the "Ships starting with F" page. Owner: A/S Lampas Built in Gothenburg 1936. Captain: August Clifton
Fenris is listed in the Bermuda portion of Convoy HX 46 in May/June-1940. In Sept.-1941 she was in Convoy HX 150 (in station 83) along with the Norwegian Heina (64), Solfonn (44), Havkong (84), Garonne (62), Thorshavet (33), Topdalsfjord (34), Varanger (66?) and Braganza (66?). The following month we find her going in the other direction with the westbound Convoy ON 26, which left Liverpool on Oct. 14-1941. Her destination is given as Curacao, and she had station 64 of the convoy, surrounded on almost all sides by Norwegian ships, namely Leiv Eiriksson in station 63, Meline in 73, Thorshøvdi in 74, President de Vogue in 53 and Mirlo in 83. Garonne sailed a little further in front in station 32, while Belinda had station 23 and Havkong station 34. (More information on all the other Norwegian ships mentioned here can be found with the help of the alphabet index at the end of this page).
Torpedoed amidships by U-168 (Pich) in the evening of Febr. 21-1944 in position 08 32S 65 35E, and damaged but able to reach Bombay. According to "Nortraships flåte" the radio was damaged, but repairable so that a message could be sent. It was received by Bombay Radio which forwarded it to the high command of the British forces. It appears Fenris was sailing as a fleet oiler, and that she was not supposed to be in that area in the first place. New orders had been sent to her a few days earlier, but obviously not received. After she had been torpedoed she was at first ordered to Addu Atoll, but when she notified authorities that she was able to do 11 knots she continued to Bombay for repairs. 90' of her port side hull had been ripped away by the explosion. (Japanese and German subs torpedoed 29 ships in the Indian Ocean in the course of the first 3 months of 1944). In Apr.-1945, Fenris is listed in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 298. This convoy will be aded to my Convoys section; in the meantime, please scroll down to ON 298 on this page. Crew List - No casualties:
Related external links: The Australian War Memorial has a picture of this ship. It can be found by running a search through their collection search page. Back to Fenris on the "Ships starting with F" page. Norway had previously had a small steamship by this name from 1913, originally delivered in Nov.-1884 as Ituna for London & Solway S. S. Co. Ltd., London, 457 gt. When purchased by Jacob Kielland & H. O. Warloe, Trondheim in 1897 she came from owners in Grangemouth, still Ituna. From 1898 she belonged to A/S D/S Ituna (Albr. W. Selmer), Trondheim. Purchased by Ole L. Waage, Kopervik in 1907. Aground on Jan. 8-1908 on Langeland in heavy storm with snow on a voyage Hadersleben, Germany (now Haderslev)-Rostock in ballast. Condemned, then sold in 1909 to O. A. A. Hirsch, Moss, repaired and sold in 1913 as Fenris to Johan T. Østbø, Stavanger, purchased by D/S A/S Fenris (O. Emil Lea), Haugesund in June-1915, then sold in 1916 to Erik Evanger, Fosnavåg/Ålesund. Managed by Ingv. Bjørnebos Rederi, Kristiansand in the period 1917-1919, from 1919 she belonged to Skibs-A/S Crescendo (Thor Hals), Christiania. Sold in Aug.-1920 to Malta (T. Gasan) and renamed Ituna again. Struck a mine and sank on March 26-1921 near Santa Maria on a voyage Piræus-Malta via Korfu with cargo of flour. ("Våre gamle skip"). The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Volume I (Norwegian Maritime Museum) - ref. My sources.
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