M/S Molda

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(County Line) - Source: Bjørn Milde's postcard collection.

Other pages on this website with information related to this text:
Convoy HX 205
Convoy HX 213
Convoy HX 214
Convoy HX 222
Convoy ON 166
Convoy HX 240
Convoy HX 241
Convoy HX 250
Convoy HX 276
Convoy ON 224
Convoy HX 284
Convoy HX 293
Convoy HX 301
Convoy HX 310
Convoy HX 321
Convoy HX 334
Convoy HX 335

Misc. War Voyages:

Molda, with a general cargo for Mersey in station 105, was one of several Norwegian ships sailing in Convoy HX 205 from Halifax to the U.K. in Aug./Sept.-1942. The following month, Oct.-1942, she was scheduled for Convoy HX 213, but did not sail, and instead joined the next convoy on Nov. 3, HX 214, general cargo for Liverpool, station 71.

Early in the new year, on Jan. 6-1943, she can be found in Convoy HX 222 from New York, general cargo for Liverpool. The following month she returned with the westbound Convoy ON 166, in which the Norwegian Stigstad, Ingria, N. T. Nielsen-Alonso and Glittre were sunk. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Tropic Star, Skandinavia, Tai Shan and Brasil. That spring, in May-1943, she was scheduled for Convoy HX 240, but cancelled and joined the next convoy, HX 241, general cargo for Glasgow, station 73. At the end of July that same year, she shows up in Convoy HX 250, bound for Swansea, general cargo.

In Jan.-1944 she's listed in Convoy HX 276 from New York, again bound for Glasgow with general cargo, then returned to the U.S. with Convoy ON 224, which left Liverpool on Febr. 15-1944 and arrived New York on March 2. The Norwegian Fernmoor, Skaraas, Pan Scandia, Samuel Bakke and Vanja are also listed, some of which, as well as Molda, went back to the U.K. towards the end of March with Convoy HX 284. In May-1944 she joined Convoy HX 293, general cargo for Liverpool. In July she was in Convoy HX 301 from New York, again bound for Liverpool with general cargo, then in Sept. she sailed in Convoy HX 310 (Halifax section, general cargo for Liverpool), and in Nov. that year she was in HX 321, destination London with general cargo.

She was scheduled for the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 334 towards the end of Jan.-1945, but instead joined the next convoy, HX 335, general cargo for Newcastle.

All the convoys mentioned here have been included in my Convoys section - direct links have been provided above.

POST WAR:

Renamed Molda County in 1959 (not sold). Renamed Molda in 1961 (not sold). Sold in 1963 to K/S A/S Ocean Transport & Co. and D/S A/S Fro (August Kjerland & Co A/S), Bergen, renamed Fana. Renamed Captain Leonidas in 1966, having been sold in Dec.-1965 to Astronuevo Cia. Nav. S/A (Marine Star Shipping Agencies Inc., New York), Panama. Grounded in Canal Messier on Apr. 7-1968 while on a voyage from Santos to Valparaiso with sugar and became a total loss.

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Other ships by this name: This company used the name Molda again for a tanker delivered to them in Dec.-1966, built at Kiel, 75 494 gt. Broken up in 1979. Another Molda was delivered to the company in June-1979, built in Japan, 24 999 gt. Renamed Condor Arrow in 1991 for Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi A/S, Bergen - still in service. Yet another Molda was delivered in Apr.-1994, also built in Japan, 52 157 gt. Still in service, managed by Vista Ship Management A/S, Bergen.