Manager: Jacob Kjøde A/S, Bergen
Tonnage: 1285 gt

Built in Lübeck in 1899.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12

Some Convoy Voyages:

Munin was in regular coal trade to Svalbard at the beginning of the war. See "Some background history" under D/S Dagny I for an explanation as to how she came under allied control.

According to the external website that I've linked to below, she was in Convoy HX 156, which had originated in Halifax on Oct. 22-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Nov. 5; Munin, however, joined this convoy from Reykjavik and arrived Clyde on Nov. 5 (see Page 1). Several Norwegian ships took part, and Eglantine and Montbretia are named among the escorts.

For info, there's also a Norwegian ship that looks like Munin listed in Convoy RU 37 from Reykjavik to the U.K. in Aug.-1942 (the document is rather blurry, and names of some ships hard to decipher). The tonnage is given as 99 gt, but when going to Page 3 of the archive documents, we see that Munin did indeed depart Reykjavik on the date this convoy sailed.

Munin took part as supply ship in the invasion of Normandy in June-1944, arriving June 26. The external site already mentioned has information on some of the convoys she was in during this time period - compare this information to the voyages listed on the archive documents.

As will be seen when going to Page 11, she finally got to go home to Norway at the end of Dec.-1945.

Related external link:
Misc. convoys - By clicking on "Ship Search", using "Munin" as keyword, several convoys will come up. Here is HX 156, mentioned above.

Back to Munin on the "Ships starting with M" page.

Haugesund lost a steamer by this name in Dec.-1907, 1192 gt - originally delivered in 1879 as Engadine for Wilson & Co., London. From Nov.-1893 as Munin for Joh. E. van der Ohe, Bergen. Purchased by B. Stolt-Nielsen, Haugesund on May 2-1899. Disappeared with 16 men on a voyage Kotka, Finland-Ghen, Belgium, during a heavy storm.

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, and misc.