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D/S Ledaal To Ledaal on the "Ships starting with L" page. Owner: D/S A/S Ledaal Delivered in Dec.-1899 from Blyth Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Blyth as Everingham II to E. Yorkshire Steamship Co. Ltd, Goole. 3041 gt, 1898 net, 5100 tdwt, 324.3' x 47' x 22.4', Triple exp. 281 nhp (Blair & Co.). Sailed as Polcarne of Goole from 1911. Purchased by A/S Skoglands Linje (T. H. Skogland), Haugesund in 1913 and renamed Skogland, went to Valdemar Skogland in 1928, then T. H. Skogland in 1930. Sold in March-1931 to Fr. Waage Rasmussen, Haugesund and renamed Skudefjord. Sold on May 2-1934 to Stavanger Skipsopphugging A/S for breaking up. Resold on May 15 to D/S A/S Ledaal (Alf Gowart Olsen), Stavanger and entered service as Ledaal. Captain: Thorvald Berge. Managed by Westbourne Shipping Co. Ltd., Cardiff during the war years.
Ledaal is listed among the ships in Convoy HN 9A from Norway to the U.K. at the end of Jan.-1940. As will be seen by clicking on the link, several other Norwegian ships also took part. She was scheduled for the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 5, in Sept.-1940, but cancelled and instead joined the next convoy, SC 6, steel and scrap for Middlesbrough. In Nov.-1940 she's listed, as one of 12 Norwegian ships, in Convoy OB 244. Ledaal is said to have joined from Oban and was bound for Wabana in ballast, station 66. (This convoy was attacked by U-boats and several ships were sunk, but all the Norwegian vessels escaped harm). However, she appears again in Convoy OB 248, with destination Sydney C.B. (ref. external link below), which left Liverpool on Nov. 23 and dispersed on the 26th, and again with destination Halifax in Convoy OB 256, leaving Liverpool on Dec. 8. Note that Convoy OB 244 had left Liverpool on Nov. 17, and she could not have made 3 voyages within such a short scope of time, so could only have sailed in one of these convoys, possibly OB 256? (In fact, several of the other ships listed in OB 244 also appear in OB 248). In Jan. the following year, she was scheduled for the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 103, but did not sail (her destination is given as Swansea, cargo of lumber). She was also cancelled from the slow Convoy SC 21 at the end of that month, as well as from SC 22, but eventually got away with Convoy SC 24 on Febr. 28. At the end of March-1942 we find her in station 93 of Convoy SC 77 from Halifax to the U.K., cargo of sulphur for Ardrossan (having cancelled from the previous convoy, SC 76). In Aug. that year she's mentioned in connection with Convoy SC 96, but is not included in the Advacne Sailing Telegram, and it looks like she was not actually part of the convoy (may have left Halifax for other reasons that day). In Nov.-1943 she made a voyage to Gibraltar in station 22 of convoy OS 58/KMS 32, which left Liverpool on Nov. 5. The Gibraltar portion (KMS 32), in which Ledaal and several other Norwegian ships sailed, arrived there on Nov. 19, while the rest of the ships continued to Freetown. The external website that I've linked to below has further info on this convoy.
Sold in June-1946, sailed as Gerodimos under Panamanian flag. Sold to Istanbul in 1949, sailed as Abant under Turkish flag until broken up in 1959. Related external links: See also this Back to Ledaal on the "Ships starting with L" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Våre gamle skip", Leif M. Bjørkelund & E. H. Kongshavn and misc.
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