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D/S Lynghaug To Lynghaug on the "Ships starting with L" page. Manager: Johan Hvide, Bergen Built in Vancouver, Canada 1919. Delivered in Aug.-1919 as Canadian Trooper for Canadian Government Merch. Mar., Montreal. Purchased by D/S A/S Lynghaug (Lars Mæland), Haugesund in Apr.-1930, renamed Lynghaug. Sold in 1932 to Johan Hvide's Rederi A/S, Bergen. Captain: Arne Høst-Olsen Lynghaug was in station 92 of Convoy OS 7 in Sept./Oct.-1941, on a voyage from Oban to Freetown/Takoradi. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Hallanger and Strinda. Jenny was also scheduled for this convoy but did not sail. See the external link at the end of this text to more convoy information. She was also in Convoy OG 79 (station 33 - Liverpool-Gibraltar convoy) in Jan.-1942, and the following month she returned to the U.K. with Convoy HG 79, bound for Ipswich with a cargo of ore. In May that year she can be found in Convoy HX 191, leaving Halifax for the U.K. on May 24-1942. In Aug./Sept. she's listed as sailing in Convoy HX 205, and at the end of Dec.-1942 she was scheduled for Convoy HX 221 from New York, but instead joined the next convoy, HX 222, which departed New York on Jan. 6-1943, and arrived Liverpool on the 22nd. Lynghaug was bound for Newport. In May-1943, she can be found in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 131. It looks like she may have originally been scheduled for Convoy HX 238 from New York, but the name of the ship is very blurry, so I can't be sure. That summr she sailed in Convoy HX 250 which had originated in New York City on July 30-1943, but Lynghaug joined the convoy from Halifax on Aug. 2. Her destination is given as Sharpness, cargo of lumber. A few months later, at the end of Nov.-1943, we find her in the Gibraltar-U.K. Convoy MKS 31, together with Danio and Slemmestad. Follow the links for more on these convoys. (MKS 31, which joined up with Convoy SL 140 from Freetown, is also available at the external link provided at the end of this page).
4 old war ships along with the 56 oldest, or otherwise suitable ships that could be found were ordered sunk by the Admiralty off the beach near Arromanches (Operation Gooseberry), to be used as breakwater in connection with the Normandie invasion in June-1944. Lynghaug was one of them, due to the fact that she had run aground just before arrival Preston when on a voyage from Casablanca via Gibraltar at the end of Nov.-1943. It had been possible to bring her afloat again and she continued to Preston to unload her cargo, then to Newcastle for repairs, but following an inspection she was condemned. Lynghaug was de-rigged and readied for her new task in Newcastle before continuing to Leith to join the convoy of other ships chosen for the same purpose (her holds were filled with sand and explosives). The convoy arrived on the coast of Arromanches on June 7, the day after the landings, and the ships were taken in one by one and sunk in a line. Lynghaug's turn came on the 10th. D/S Sirehei, D/S Norfalk and D/S Norjerv were others earmarked for this purpose (all listed on this site), though the latter struck a mine en route to Normandie, was taken in tow, but sank only 2 n. miles from her destination.
Related external link: Mulberry - From the comprehensive website Skylighters. Also has a picture showing "Operation Goosberry" ships. Back to Lynghaug on the "Ships starting with L" page. Haugesund (A/S Mercator) had a ship by this name shortly after WW I, built 1919, 840 gt. Sold in 1924 to D/S A/S Vard (G. O. Aavold & Co.), registered as Ole Aarvold in 1925. Ran aground at Cape Pine near New Foundland on Sept. 1-1929 on a voyage Twillinggate-Buffet Harbour in ballast - no casualties. 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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