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D/S Nortun To Nortun on the "Ships starting with N" page. Owner: Viking Corp, Panama (a subsidiary of Viking Tanker Co. Ltd., London, associated with Johan Rasmussen & Co.) Captain: Peder T. Inderberg (previously of Nidarnes until sunk). Nortun, general cargo for Mersey, station 54, sailed in Convoy HX 205 in Aug./Sept.-1942 - follow the link for more details.
Nortun was on a voyage from Busreh & Table Bay for Bahia, Trinidad & Philadelphia with a cargo of 5002 tons of chrome ore, 637 tons asbestos, 124 tons of lead and copper concentrates, when she was torpedoed and sunk by U-516 (Wiebe) on March 20-1943, 27 35S 14 22E, 8 crew members and two armed guard died, 37 survived. In my Guestbook there's a message from someone whose uncle went down with Nortun, he's looking for more information. Also, my Ship Forum has messages from relatives of someone called Francis Klataske, who appears to have been a gunner on Nortun when lost. 10 Norwegians are commemorated at the Memorial for Seamen in Stavern, Norway, which I've linked to below. 11 names are given, but Mangård Charles Krogstad is listed twice, once as motorman and once as stoker (same birthdate), probably the uncle of the poster of the Guestbook message mentioned above. The site says that 6 Norwegians died when Nortun was sunk. The following are also commemorated: Steward Johan August Andersen, Engineer Leif Mangor Andersen (previously of Norland, until sunk), Seaman Rolf Blom-Pettersen, 2nd Engineer Arthur Eilif Hansen, Seaman Edgar Arnold Hansen, Captain Peder Torstein Inderberg, Cook Finn Salomonsen. I looked the names up in "Våre falne", a series of 4 books that name Norwegian casualties in WW II, and find that 2 of the men commemorated died in other incidents. Able Seaman Thorleif Kristian Aslaksen had died in an accident in Melbourne on March 16-1942, while Engineer Johan Jenssen became ill and died at hospital in New York on July 30-1943, so it looks like he survived the sinking of Nortun, possibly joined another ship, but died that same year. (I cannot find E. A. Hansen and R. B. Pettersen in these books). Related external links: Other ships owned by Johan Rasmussen & Co. - Here is the main page. Back to Nortun on the "Ships starting with N" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Lloyd's War Losses, Vol I", "The World's Merchant Fleets", Roger W. Jordan, "Våre falne" - and misc.
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