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M/S Maud To Maud on the "Ships starting with M" page.
The above picture was kindly sent to me by Historical Department, MAN B&W Diesel, Copenhagen, who also sent me this picture while building, this picture from her launch, and this one, also from the launching, as well as a picture of her engine (quality and size of all pics reduced to save space). Their representative says that their museum (external link) has models of some ships. Captain: Alfred Teigland. Here's a message in my Norwegian Guestbook from his grandson. Chief Engineer from Febr.-1943 to July-1943 was Ludvig Angel Marthinussen. Here's a Guestbook message from his son (address can be provided via my contact address at the bottom of this page).
Maud is listed in the slow Sydney C.B.-U.K. Convoy SC 58, in Dec.-1941, cargo of corn for Avonmouth. In March-1942 she sailed in Convoy SC 73, together with a number of other Norwegian ships. Her destination is given as Cardiff, cargo of grain, station 83. In May that year she can be found in Convoy SC 84, again in the company of many other Norwegian vessels, and in Aug./Sept. she's listed as sailing in SC 98. In June the following year she was one of several Norwegian ships in Convoy SC 134 from Halifax (having cancelled from the previous convoy, SC 133), then at the end of Sept. that same year (1943) she shows up in Convoy SC 143, cargo of sugar for Greenock. A couple of months later, in Dec.-1943 we find her in Convoy SC 148. In Apr.-1944 she joined the slow Convoy SC 157, cargo of steel and pit props for Immingham. In July she sailed in the large Convoy HX 300 from New York, bound for Liverpool with a cargo of sugar. That fall, in Sept./Oct.-1944, she's listed in Convoy HX 309. This convoy originated in New York, but Maud joined with the Halifax section (departing on Sept. 17) together with Velma, Iron Baron and Lago, and was bound for Immingham with pit props. Early in Dec. that same year we find her in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 162, cargo of wood pulp for Rochester. All these convoys are available in my Convoys section, ref. list of links above. Like so many other Norwegian ships, Maud had a Canadian female radio operator. Her name was Dorothy Sullivan Ramsland (she had married a Norwegian gunner, hence the Norwegian surname). A list of names of several others, along with the names of their ships, can be found on my page about M/S Mosdale. See also the external link below. Related external link: Back to Maud on the "Ships starting with M" page. This company had previously had a steamship named Maud, built in Grimstad 1907 for Hjalmar Røed & Co., 2117 gt. Sold to Shanghai in 1929 and renamed Lung Shan, then named Enderta 1938-1951. Deleted from reg. in 1951.
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