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D/S Knoll To Knoll on the "Ships starting with K" page. Manager: A. Salvesen, Oslo Built by Trondhjems mek. Verksted, Trondheim, Norway in 1916. Previous names: Fager until 1933, Akabahra until 1936, Mirva until 1939. What follows was found at the last external website that I've linked to at the end of this page: "Built as Fager for Nilson, Nyquist & Co., Oslo with triple expansion steam reciprocating main engine. Sold in 1933 to E. D. Knutsen, Oslo, renamed Akabahra. Sold in 1935 to Hans B. Jeppesen, Oslo (name unchanged). Sold in 1936 to A/S Salvesens Rederi, Oslo, renamed Mirva. Renamed Knoll in 1939 (same owner). Captain: Jacob Marcussen Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives: Please compare the above voyages with Arnold Hague's Voyage Record below.
(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database). Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each. Errors may exist, and several voyages are missing.
Knoll is listed among the ships in Convoy HN 9A from Norway to the U.K. in Jan.-1940. As will be seen when clicking on the link, several other Norwegian ships also took part. According to Page 1 of the archive documents, she arrived Greenock on Apr. 9-1940, the day of the German invasion of Norway. She had sailed from Manchester on Apr. 7. At the end of July that same year we find her, with destination Sydney, C.B., in Convoy OB 192, which originated in Liverpool on July 31 and dispersed Aug. 4, Knoll arriving her destination on Aug. 14 (she had started out from Milford Haven on July 31) - ref. external link provided within the Voyage Record. Having made a voyage to Quebec and back to Sydney, C.B. she was scheduled to return to the U.K. with the slow Convoy SC 4 on Sept. 10, but instead joined the next convoy on the 18th, SC 5, cargo of lumber for Great Yarmouth. She was subsequently mostly in service transporting coal, iron and food supplies around the U.K. On March 26-1941, she was attacked by 2 aircraft, 8 n. miles west of Lundy Island, damaged and beached at Lundy Island, temporarily repaired, then taken in tow to Swansea on the 29th. (According to Page 2 of the archive documents, she had left Falmouth on March 25, arrived Swansea March 29, left again on Apr. 26 - see also Page 3 for further 1941 voyages). That summer, she was one of many Norwegian ships in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 1, originating in Liverpool on July 26, dispersed Aug. 9. Her destination is given as St. Stephen, where she arrived on Aug. 14, having started out from Milford Haven on July 25 (see Page 4). On Aug. 30, she's listed, with a cargo of lumber, in station 76 of Convoy SC 42 from Sydney, C.B., in which Stargard and several others were sunk - follow the link for details on this convoy battle and the names of ships sunk (incl. the cruising order of the convoy). Knoll had no form of armament at the time of the attack in March-1941 described above, but on Nov. 28-1941 she was better able to defend herself (equipped with 3 Marlin guns) when she was under attack again between St. Ives and Trevose Head. The British S/S Macbrae was attacked at the same time and between them they managed to hit the attacking aircraft, which subsequently withdrew. Page 5 shows her voyages in this period. Skipping now to Oct.-1943, when she headed to Gibraltar - see Page 11 of the archive documents. To make this voyage she had joined Convoy KX 11, which left Milford Haven on Oct. 22 and arrived Gibraltar Nov. 1. Knoll proceeded to Algiers on the 10th, with arrival there Nov. 13, having sailed in Convoy KMS 31. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all KMS convoys. She now remained in that part of the world for quite some time, as will be seen from the archive document already mentioned, as well as Page 12 and Page 13. Convoy information for some of these voyages is available in Hague's Voyage Record. She was damaged again at Bari on Apr. 9-1945 when the ammunition ship S/S Charles Henderson (Liberty Ship, built 1943) blew up during the unloading of cargo. Knoll had arrived Bari from Ancona on Apr. 2 with Convoy HA 25 (ref. link in table above). The harbour was badly damaged and several people injured or killed. 3 other ammunition ships were set ablaze but further explosions were avoided. One of the ships set on fire was Knoll, which had a large cargo of bombs, and her holds had to be filled with water. This thread on my Ship Forum has some further details. See also my page about Far. Knoll left Bari again on Apr. 21, arriving Taranto the next day, later proceeding to Naples and Brindisi (according to Page 13 above). The rest of her voyages are listed on Page 14; as can be seen, she went home to Norway in Nov.-1945.
Sold in 1947 to H. Gjerpen & Co, Oslo, same name. Sold in 1956 to Ole T. Flakke, Kristiansund N, same name. Re-engined in 1958 (steam to diesel). From 1960 owners were Kristiansund N. & Nordmøre Forretningsbank A/S, Kristiansund N (this was a bank). Sold in 1961 and renamed Ramsnes. Ran aground on Sept. 21-1971 and stranded at Drogsholmen. Refloated and towed to a yard in Haugesund for repairs, but condemned. Sold in 1972 for scrapping by Machinehandel en Scheepssloperij de Koophandel Nieuw Lekkerland, Rotterdam, arriving in tow on March 15. Related external links: Another picture is available on Back to Knoll on the "Ships starting with K" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, and misc. (ref. My sources).
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