D/S Norvarg

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WW II:

Renamed Empire Elk (M.O.S.) in 1940. One of the 19 ships transferred to Nortraship in 1942. See Empire Ships on my page "Ship Statistics & Misc." for names of the other 18. Norvarg was taken over at Glasgow, March 27-1942.

At the beginning of July-1942 she's listed in the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 90, cargo of steel for Newport.

Norvarg was 1 of 10 Norwegian ships sailing in Convoy SC 132 from Halifax to the U.K. in May-1943, and in Aug. that year we find her in station 74 of Convoy SC 140, again in the company of several other Norwegian ships - follow the links for further info.

In Nov.-1943 she's listed in Convoy MKS 29 from Gibraltar to the U.K., together with the Norwegian Sirehei and Belnor. The first external website that I've linked to below subsequently has her going in the other direction in station 55 of Convoy OS 63/KMS 37 in Dec.-1943/Jan.-1944, voyaging from Aultbea to Naples. Norvarg was in the Gibraltar portion, KMS 37, which arrived there on Jan. 7-1944. In March-1944 she's listed in Convoy SL 150/MKS 41, joining with the MKS part of the convoy from Gibraltar on March 3-1944, cargo of lemons, scrap and sulphur, voyage Syracuse-Loch Ewe. The website about this convoy series has much more information. (The Gibraltar portion of the latter convoy, MKS 41, will also be added to my own website).

I July-1944 she's listed as sailing in Convoy HX 298 from New York, bound for Clyde with a cargo of sugar, and in Oct. that year she shows up in Convoy SC 158 from Halifax, cargo of sugar for Liverpool.

POST WAR:

Sailed as Nan Chiang (Wallem & Co., Shanghai) from 1946, then Northern Glow (Great Northern Shipping Co. Ltd., Hong Kong) 1950 and from 1959 as Hoping Ssu Shi Liu (Government of China). Deleted from registers in 1971. According to the Empire Ships website, she was seen at Shanghai as Zhan Dou 46 in 1979.

Related external links:
OS and OS/KMS Convoys - The site also has a section on the returning SL convoys. As can be seen, Norvarg is listed in Convoy OS 63/KMS 37 and SL 150/MKS 41, as are several other Norwegian ships.

Empire Ships - Empire Elk can be found on this page.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Misc. sources, incl. E-mails from Barbara Mumford - her source: "Empire Ships" by Mitchell & Sawyer.