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T/T Honningsvaag To Honningsvaag on the "Ships starting with H" page. Manager: Nortraship Built by Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co., Mobile, Alabama (333), delivered in Apr.-1945. Controlled by WSA during war, 1 of 5 ships transferred to Nortraship from U.S.A. in 1945. Honningsvaag was taken over in Mobile on April 11. The other ships were: T/T Finnmark, D/S Lektor Garbo, D/S Carl Oftedal, and T/T Hammerfest, all included on this website (see the Master Ship Index). Like several other Norwegian ships, Honningsvaag had Canadian, female radio operators. From Apr.-1945 until May-1946 Margaret Spence was on board, while Elizabeth Prescott served from Apr.-1945 till Sept. that same year (after the war, she served on Harald Torsvik). See my page about M/S Mosdale for the names of many others, along with the names of their ships. Related item on this website:
Together with the Norwegian California Express, Ida Bakke, Kirkenes and Martin Bakke, Honningsvaag is listed in the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 67, which left New York on Apr. 24-1945 and arrived Liverpool on May 5. A few days later she joined the westbound Convoy UC 67A, departing Liverpool on May 9, arriving New York on the 19th. Kirkenes was again in company. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named on the page listing ships in all UC convoys.
Sold to Norway in 1947 and renamed Thorunn for Tønnevold & Co., Grimstad, on a 10 years charter to Standard Oil Co. (Captains were Olaf T. Larssen and Petter Birkeland, previously of M/T Thelma and M/T Thorhild). Collided with a tanker near Maracaibo in 1957 which caused an explosion on board, killing 1 crew member and causing considerable damages. Temporarily repaired at Maracaibo, then towed to Savannah for final repairs. Sold and renamed St. Christopher in 1961, Olga Konow Inc., New York. Converted to a bulk carrier at Grand Quevilly, France in 1962. Renamed Globe Traveler in 1964, Overseas Traveller in 1968, still in service 1977. (Info received from R. W. Jordan). (Tønnevold & Co. later had another Thorunn built at St. Nazaire in 1962 (a shelter decker), sold to Cyprus in 1972. Yet another Thorunn was delivered in the fall of 1973). Related external links: More Post War info - This site agrees on the whole with my own information given above, but adds that she had the name Traveler for Ogden Traveler Transport, Inc. (Ogden Marine, Inc.), New York in 1978 and that she was broken up at Alang in 1983 by Haryana Steel. Back to Honningsvaag on the "Ships starting with H" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, E-mails from Roger W. Jordan - and misc. other as named within the above text.
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