Manager: Nortraship
Tonnage: 10 297 gt

Built by Sun Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa (483), delivered in May-1945. Taken over in Mobile on April 11-1945. One of 5 new ships transferred to Nortraship that year. (The others were T/T Finnmark, D/S Lektor Garbo, D/S Carl Oftedal, T/T Honningsvaag, all included on this website (see the Master Ship Index).

This ship had 2 Canadian, female radio operators during the war. One of them was Yvonne Demers (from May 1945 till Jan.-1946) and the other was Margaret Dixon. A list of names of other female, Canadian radio operators can be found on my page about M/S Mosdale.

Misc. Voyages:

(More voyages will be added).

Together with the Norwegian Notos and Ravnefjell, Hammerfest is listed in Convoy NG 506, which left New York on May 6-1945 and arrived Guantanamo on the 13th (ref. external link below). She must have returned to New York again, because later that month we find her in the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 72, departing New York on May 25, arriving Liverpool on June 3. As will be seen by following the link, Karsten Wang and Kirkenes are also included.

POST WAR:

Later purchased by Johs. Hansens Tankrederi A/S, Oslo, named Polyglory in 1949, Union Glory in 1960.

Related external links:
The T2 Tanker page - I found Hammerfest at this website, under Sun Shipbuilding

Convoy NG 506