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D/S Inger To Inger on the "Ships starting with I" page. Owner: A/S Inger Delivered in May-1930 from Trondhjems mek. Verksted A/S, Trondheim (196) as Inger to A/S Inger (Bachke & Co.), Trondheim. 261' 5" (loa) x 37' 11" x 16' 8", Triple exp. steam engine 814 ihp. (Rohwer gives her tonnage as 1418 gt as does Charles Hocking). Captain: Jørgen Gerd Jørgensen
Inger is listed in Convoy HN 9A from Norway to the U.K. in Jan.-1940. In March-1940 she was in Convoy HN 19, bound for Tyne in ballast. She joined Convoy ON 25 in order to head back to Norway at the beginning of Apr.-1940, and since she was later under Allied control she must have been one of the ships that returned to the U.K. due to the German invasion which was underway. Follow the links for more information. She was scheduled for the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 66 in Aug.-1940, but did not sail. She's among the ships listed in Convoy HX 69 later that month, bound for Milford Haven with cargo of lumber, sailing in station 93 of the convoy. In Oct. that year she appears among the ships in Convoy OB 224, which left Liverpool on Oct. 5-1940 and dispersed on the 12th. Her destination on that occasion was Sydney, C.B., station 34. This convoy also had several Norwegian ships, as will be seen by following the first link to the OA and OB convoys provided below. She was scheduled to return to the U.K. the following month with Convoy HX 86, but appears to have cancellled. She shows up again in Convoy HX 90 (lumber for Sharpness), but lost the convoy in a storm and thereby avoided the subsequent attacks by U-boats. Tai Yin was also initially in this convoy but returned to port due to the weather. Several ships were sunk by U-boats - follow links for more convoy information. Again, several Norwegian ships took part. Related external links: See also this
Departed Milford Haven for Reykjavik on Aug. 19-1941 with 1300 tons coal and 200 tons coke, Convoy ON 9. On Aug. 23-1941 she was instructed to return to Loch Ewe escorted by two trawlers (reason not known; a British and a Belgian ship also received the same order). She was southbound in position 58(48?) 58N 07 50W at 22:00 GMT that evening (about 30 n. miles northwest of Butt of Lewis, Scotland) when she was hit by two torpedoes from U-143 (Gelhaus), the first one striking on the port side near the engine room and the second one (about 6 seconds later) near No. 4 hatch, also on the port side. Luckily, the starboard lifeboat had come loose and floated near the captain, the 1st mate and the 2nd mate who were in the water, 11 more were picked up by them, but no more survivors were seen as day dawned. The escort vessels had continued, but the lifeboat was located by an aircraft and the men picked up by the fishing trawler Ladylove that morning and taken to Stornoway. 3 men had been killed in the engine room, another 6 had gone down with the ship. Hearings were held in Glasgow on Sept. 2-1941 with the captain, the 1st mate and the 2nd engineer appearing. At that time, the captain had still not obtained an explanation as to why they had been ordered to return.
At war's end Bachke & Co, was left with only 2 ships, Bera and Sigrid (Enid, Eldrid, Hilda, Gunvor and Gudrid had also been lost [the latter was later raised], and Nea was sold - these vessels are listed under their respective letters of the alphabet - ref. index below. Related external links: Back to Inger on the "Ships starting with I" page. Other ships named Inger: Bachke & Co. had also had an Inger from 1907 till 1918. This ship was built in Trondheim and delivered as Inger to A/S D/S Inger (Bachke & Co.) in Sept.-1907, 1135 gt. (Bachke & Co. lost 4 ships during WW I [50% of the fleet], namely Dag, Turid, Djerv and Herdis, while Inger, Dacapo [later British Kalua 1923, sunk by German aircraft 1941], Mildrid and Eldrid made it through). Under British flag 1918, The Shipping Controller (J. Currie & Co.), London. Became Furulund for A/S Furulund (Sam. Ugelstad), Oslo in May-1927, then sold to Sweden in 1930 and renamed Falksten, later Kjell Billner 1935. Seized in June.-1940 and became the Helga Schröder for Richard Schröder, Rostock. Arrived Lübeck for breaking up by Alnwick Harmstorff on Apr. 15-1955 (this info from Bachke & Co. fleet list, Finn R. Hansen). Frederik F. Zimmer, Oslo had a ship named Inger after the war, see post war information under Kong Bjørn. Denmark and Sweden also had ships by this name. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Bachke & Co. fleet list, Finn R. Hansen, "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Norwegian Maritime Museum, Volume I, and misc. (ref. My sources).
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