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M/S Ferncliff To Ferncliff on the "Ships starting with F" page. Owner: A/S Glittre Built by Deutsche Werft AG, Betrieb Finkenwärder, Hamburg, Germany in 1924. Captain: Olav S. Apold. In my Norwegian Guestbook there's a message from the grandson of the Captain Apold, saying that he later commanded the Norwegian MTB squadron in Shetland towards the end of the war. This ship at some point in the war had a female Canadian radio operator named Josephine Ryan. She later married Alf Sverre Fredriksen, who's mentioned in the crew list for Fernhill. My Norwegian Guestbook has a message from their son, and right underneath it, there's a message from their nephew. According to the latter message, it looks like she also sailed on another Norwegian ship. Several female Canadian radio operators sailed on Norwegian ships, a list of their names (and ships) can be found towards the end of my page about M/S Mosdale.
Ferncliff was one of several Norwegian ships sailing in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 99 in Sept.-1942. Later that year she was used as military transport for the Torch operations (the invasion of North Africa, which commenced on Nov. 8-1942 - Athos has a list of Norwegian ships taking part in these operations). Ferncliff shows up in Convoy MKS 8 in Febr.-1943, together with Jenny and Kong Sverre, In July-1943 she's listed in Convoy SC 137 from Halifax to the U.K., in Sept. that same year we find her in station 91 of Convoy SC 143, and in Dec. she joined Convoy SC 149 - general cargo for Liverpool in all 3 convoys, which also had several other Norwegian ships. She also sailed in Convoy SC 154, which left Halifax on Febr. 28-1944 and arrived Liverpool on March 15. However, she returned to port on that occasion (St. John's) and subsequently joined the Newfoundland portion of the next convoy, SC 155, general cargo for Swansea. In May that year she sailed in the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 292, general cargo for Liverpool, and that summer, in July-1944, she joined Convoy HX 301 from New York, again bound for Liverpool with general cargo. In the middle of Nov.-1944 we find her in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 161, carrying a general cargo and mail, destination Liverpool. She was scheduled for the slow Convoy SC 167 in the middle of Febr.-1945, but did not sail. Back to Ferncliff on the "Ships starting with F" page.
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