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M/S Gausdal To Gausdal on the "Ships starting with G" page. Manager: Boe & Pedersen, Oslo Completed by Odense Staalskibsværft, Odense in Febr.-1930 as Guldborg for A/S D/S Dannebrog (C. K. Hansen, manager) Denmark. 4732 gt (conflict), 2865 net, 8450 tdwt, 385' 6" x 54' 3", two 6-cyl. four-stroke cycle single acting oil engines by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, driving twin screws. Acquired by Leif Høegh & Co., A/S in Sept.-1933 and renamed Høegh Trader. Sold in Jan.-1936 to Skibs A/S Gausdal (Boe & Pedersen, managers) and renamed Gausdal.
According to the first external website that I've linked to below, Gausdal was in station 23 of Convoy SL 97, which departed Freetown on Jan. 4-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 24th. The Norwegian Rio Verde is also listed. In the spring of 1943 she's listed in the first convoy in the ONS series, Convoy ONS 1, which left Clyde on March 16-1943. This convoy, which had several Norwegian ships, will be added to my Convoys section in due course. In Sept.-1943 she acted as Rear Commodore ship for Convoy SC 142 from Halifax to the U.K. She had a cargo of sugar and general for London on that occasion. Going back to the site about the SL convoys, we find Gausdal in SL 162 which departed Freetown on June 20 and arrived Liverpool on July 12-1944, having joined up with Convoy MKS 53 from Gibraltar on June 30. Gausdal's destination is given as Loch Ewe, and she had station 13 of the convoy. In Sept./Oct.-1944, she's listed among the ships in Convoy HX 309. This convoy originated in New York, but Gausdal joined with the Sydney, C.B. section (departing on Sept. 16), and was bound for London with lumber. In the middle of Dec.-1944 she shows up, with a general cargo for Liverpool, in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 163.
Sold in 1953 to Ångbåts A/B Bohuslänska Kusten, Uddevalla, Sweden (Knut Nordendorph, manager), and renamed Alfhem. Sold in 1960 to N. A. Valmas, Greece, then to Cia. Nav. del Egeo, Greece and renamed Antonios V. Transferred later that year to Lebanese registry. Demolition began in Febr.-1961 at Izumidzu by Sangyo Shinko K. K. Related external links: The Australian War Memorial has another picture of this ship. It can be found by running a search through their collection search page. Back to Gausdal on the "Ships starting with G" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Leif Høegh & Co. fleet list (ref. My sources).
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