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D/S Lyng To Lyng on the "Ships starting with L" page. Owner: A/S Jøtun Built in 1920 by Rennie, Ritchie & Newport Ship Building Co., Wivenhoe, UK. Previous names: Maindy Transport, Ambleside until 1933, Livonia until 1936. Captain: Oskar Monsen. Lyng is listed in Convoy HN 11 from Norway to the U.K. in Febr.-1940, bound for Grangemouth in ballast. She returned to Norway at the end of that month with Convoy ON 16, and at the end of March, shortly before the German invasion of Norway, we find her in Convoy HN 22, bound for Grangemouth in ballast - follow the links for more convoy info; several Norwegian ships took part in all these convoys. Collided near Tyne on Jan. 18-1942 with the British Charlwood, which sank.
Collided, again off Tyne on Dec. 9-1942 and sank, no loss of life. She had departed Southampton in ballast for Tyne on Dec. 7-1942. When she reached Barrow Deep on the 8th she got her sailing orders from the boarding officer, including orders to follow a northbound convoy (station 60). On the 9th they met some southbound vessels, and lit some of the lanterns. According to the captain's report, they had just passed Buoy 20C about 10 minutes earlier when he spotted 3 red lights on Lyng's starboard bow, about 1 mile off. 2 of the ships passed safely, but in spite of evasive maneuvers and signals from Lyng, the 3rd vessel, Greyfriars, ran into her on the port side near No. 1 hatch. Lyng started to list to port, sinking by the bow, so orders were given to get the lifeboats ready. An attempt was made to get into Tyne, but about half an hour after the collision the list increased and her bow was deep in the water. She sank shortly afer the crew had abandoned her in the starboard lifeboat, the port boat having been filled with water and lost. The survivors were picked up by the examination vessel and landed in North Shields.
An inquiry was held in Newcastle on Tyne on Dec. 18-1942.
Back to Lyng on the "Ships starting with L" page. Other ships by this name: Norway had previously had another steamship named Lyng, built as Ardanrigh in Glasgow in 1883, 1346 gt. Purchased in 1899 by Oscar Hytten & C. E. Semb, Tønsberg and renamed Lyng. Lost in 1913. ("Damp - Dampskipets æra i Vestfold"). Additionally, Ron Young describes the loss of a ship by this name in his "The Comprehensive Guide to Shipwrecks of the East Coast 1918 to 2003" (available from amazon UK). Built in Greenock in 1918 as HMS Kilberry for the Royal Navy (gunboat), renamed Bolam for B. Burletson (Joblin & Hull), Newcastle in 1920, renamed Globus for Johannes Ick, Hamburg in 1922, Lyng for A. Norman Larsen, Horten, Norway in 1925. Ran aground on Filey Brigg on Jan. 30-1928, when serving as mother ship to a herring fleet, voyage Flora-Hull with herring-barrel loops, crew of 14 (Captain Ola Johansen). No casualties. Lyng broke in half, total loss. In 1964 a small ship by this name was delivered to A/S Rederiet Odfjell, Bergen, 499 gt. Later names: Greek Ouranos 1973 (765 gt by then), Panamanian Parati 1974, Tanya V 1982. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Norwegian Maritime Museum, Volume II, and misc. (ref. My sources).
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