D/T Liss
Updated Dec. 3-2008

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Source: Received from Hallvard Tveit, Norway.

Some Convoy Voyages:

More convoy information will be added.

Liss is listed in Convoy HG 32 from Gibraltar to the U.K. at the end of May-1940. She was bound for Swansea, where she arrived on June 9.

As will be seen when reading my text for Lise, there's some confusion as to whether this ship, or Liss, sailed in Convoy OB 169. Voyage information for the ship in question is given as Swansea to Abadan via Cape in ballast in my document for this convoy. OB 169 originated in Liverpool on June 17 and dispersed on the 22nd. Note that the external site that I've linked to below, based on Arnold Hague's database, does not list Lise but Liss in this convoy (giving her destination as Abadan), whereas he has Lise in the previous convoy, OB 168. My document for Convoy OB 169 is very blurry, but to me it looks more like Lise than Liss. However, when looking at Page 1 of the archive documents for Liss, we see that she left Swansea (for Abadan) on June 16 and arrived St. Vincent (C.V.) on the 29th, departing again that same day for Table Bay, where she arrived on July 15; arrival Abadan is not given; still, the reference to Table Bay leads me to believe that the ship in Convoy OB 169 was indeed Liss.

Liss made a voyage from Oran to Port Said with Convoy KMS 43* in March-1944. For info, this convoy had initially started out from the U.K. on Febr. 23 as the combined Convoy OS 69/KMS 43, which split up on March 5, the Gibraltar bound ships arriving there on March 6, while the OS convoy proceeded to Freetown. The KMS convoy then continued from Gibraltar on March 6, arriving Port Said on the 16th; as already indicated, Liss joined from Oran, having departed March 7 - see Page 2. She's also listed in Convoy KMS 50, voyage Augusta to Port Said. This convoy had also started out from the U.K. as a combined convoy, OS 76/KMS 50 (May 2), which split up off Gibraltar on May 13, with the OS convoy heading to Freetown, KMS ships to Gibraltar, but the KMS convoy continued from there to Port Said on May 15, with arrival May 25 (Liss had sailed from Augusta on May 20). According to "Nortraships flåte", she was 1 of 3 Norwegian ships in Convoy KMS 51* which was attacked by aircraft near Cape Bengut on May 30-1944, but escaped unharmed (see Marathon and President de Vogue) - note, however, that Liss is not listed in this convoy, but in the previous convoy.

In Aug.-1944, Liss is included in Convoy MKS 59*, departing Port Said on Aug. 17, arriving Gibraltar on the 28th (from there, the convoy would join up with Convoy SL 168 from Freetown on Aug. 30, the combined convoy then proceeding to the U.K. - ref. external link below). No destination is given for Liss, but when going back to Page 2 of the archive documents, we find that she arrived Algiers on Aug. 26. In Oct.-1944 we find her in Convoy KMS 66*, which arrived Port Said from Gibraltar on Nov. 5 - Liss had joined from Bizerta, having left on Oct. 30. (Convoy had originated in the U.K. on Oct. 15 as combined Convoy OS 92/KMS 66, which split up off Gibraltar on Oct. 25, but note that Liss had not been present from the U.K. on any of these occasions. More info on the combined convoys can be found via the external links provided below).

Further voyages are listed on Page 3 and Page 4 - convoy information to match some of them will be added.

* The KMS and MKS will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in them are named in the section listing ships in all KMS convoys and ships in all MKS convoys.

POST WAR:

Sold in 1963 to A/S Norske Oljekonsum and renamed O. K. Hauge. Sold to Eckhardt & Co. GmbH, Hamburg, to be broken up, delivered on Oct. 3-1964.

Related external links:
Convoy OB 169 - See my narrative above. There's also a section for OS/KMS Convoys and SL/MKS convoys.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: E-mails from Roger W. Jordan - and misc.