Manager: Fearnley & Eger, Oslo
Tonnage: 5206 gt

Delivered in Aug.-1936 from AB Götaverken, Gothenburg as Fernglen to A/S Glittre (Fearnley & Eger), Oslo. Steel hull, 425.6’ x 56.8’ x 21.9’, 5206 gt, 9140 tdwt, 6cyl 2tev dm (Götaverken) 4200bhp. Used in the company's Fern Line, US Gulf - Far East.

Captain: ? Paust, briefly relieved in spring of 1944 by Karl Johan Løvik, who had previously been the captain of Granville. He had also served briefly as captain of Roseville before joining Fernglen.

Misc. War Details:

Captain Løvik's story can be found at the external link below. He says they loaded war stores and ammunition in New York for West Africa before departing as Commodore vessel in a convoy to Trinidad on May-21-1944. They were north of the Bahamas on June 6 when they heard about the allied invasion of Normandie. On June 20 they arrived Trinidad for bunkers, then left that same afternoon in convoy, however, shortly after departure, Fernglen experienced engine problems and had to be towed back to Trinidad for repairs which took 10 days. She then joined the next southbound convoy, going along the coast of South America, but was at some point ordered to leave the convoy to proceed independently to Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, where her cargo was unloaded, before continuing to Lagos and Agape, then on to Deuala in Kamerun (these place names are the captain's spelling). Having discharged some cargo there, they headed north to Port Harcourt where palmoil was loaded, before going back to Lagos and Sekondi-Takoradi. By then it was August-1944. The captain says they had the British consul and his wife as passengers on their return voyage to New York, where they arrived Sept. 4 (Captain Løvik claims they were attacked by 2 torpedoes en route, which missed - this according to a "torpedo detector" they had had installed while in New York - and adds they had passed a lot of debris from torpedoed ships). When Captain Paust returned on Sept. 14, Captain Løvik paid off, then joined Stirlingville the following month.