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D/S Frode To Frode on the "Ships starting with F" page. Owner: Rederi-A/S Steinmann Built by Penn Et Bauduin, Dordrecht. Completed in Oct.-1917 by N.V. Scheepsbouwwerf 'De Merwede' v/h van Vliet Ef Co., Hardinxveld (131) for N.V. Scheepvaart Maats Hollandia, Rotterdam, Holland as Hollandia I. 180.3' x 28.2' x 12.1' T.3-cyl. Sold in 1922 to N.V. Adka (Wambersie Et Son, managers), Rotterdam. Sold in 1924 to A/S Garm (Alexander Prebensen, manager), Risør, Norway and renamed Frode. Sold in 1931 to Rederi A/S Steinmann (Ottar Holter, manager), Sarpsborg, Norway. (From a visitor to my website - his source: World Ship Society publication "Monroe Brothers") Captain: Sigurd Martinessen
Frode is listed in Convoy HN 12 from Norway to the U.K. in the middle of Febr.-1940, but I'm not entirely convinced this was the Norwegian Frode, because there's a Swedish Frode listed as cancelled from the previous convoy, HN 11. Early in March she joined the U.K.-Norway Convoy ON 17, and at the end of March, Frode, in ballast for Tyne, is mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram for Convoy HN 22 from Norway to the U.K., however, it looks like this AST also contains ships in HN 23A, Frode being one of them. Note that she's also listed in Convoy HN 25 just a few days later, and I'm not sure that she could have been in both. Either way, she got out of Norway just before the Germans invaded. (Again, please note that there was also a Swedish and a Danish ship by this name, so I'm not sure this was the Norwegian Frode on all occasions noted, as the Advance Sailing Telegrams are not available for all of these convoys). Chartered on Apr. 21-1940 by the Ministry of Shipping, London (Monroe Brothers, Liverpool, managers). Charterers became the Ministry of War Transport in 1941. Frode arrived Oban on fire in Jan.-1941, not war related as far as I can tell. Beached at Loshnell Bay until Aug. then towed to Greenock for repairs.
She departed Newhaven in ballast in the afternoon of Apr. 11-1943 for Cowes f. o.. Struck a mine and sank that same afternoon when between Littlehampton and Shoreham (50 45 48N 0 28 54W). The hatches, lifeboats and rafts were blown away. The helmsman, Edvard Camyen Carlson was seen dead in the wheelhouse, 13 survivors had to jump overboard and cling to whatever debris they could find when the ship sank. 10 of them were rescued an hour later by a French gunboat and landed in Portsmouth where 9 were taken to a hospital, but the captain died on Apr. 12 and 2nd Engineer Rolf Bure died on Apr. 13. The other 3 survivors had been rescued by an RAF rescue boat and taken to Littlehampton. The maritime hearings were held in London on Apr. 19-1943 with Able Seaman Nilsen, Able Seaman Olsen and Stoker Vetland appearing.
A visitor to my website has told me that "Shipwreck Index of the British Isles" states that the wreck has been dispersed by explosives, lies in shallow water and is popular with divers. Related external link: Back to Frode on the "Ships starting with F" page. 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) and misc. (ref. My Sources).
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