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M/T O. B. Sørensen To O. B. Sørensen on the "Ships starting with O" page. Manager: S. H. Smith Sørensen, Arendal Built in Malmö, Sweden 1931. Captain: Jens Morthensen. Related items on this website: Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
As will be seen when going to Page 1 above, O. B. Sørensen was en route from Shanghai to Miri when Norway was invaded by the Germans on Apr. 9-1940. She was in service between Haifa and Alexandria through the winter of 1941/42, making several trips back and forth, carrying petroleum. From Dec.-1942 she was in service in the Atlantic, carrying depth charges for the escorts, as well as acting as oiler. She eventually covered 270 000 miles, transporting 450 000 tons cargo. By following the instructions provided at the external link at the end of this page, convoy information for some of the voyages made in between those mentioned here will come up; compare these to the details found on the various archive documents. Arnold Hague has included her in the eastbound North Atlantic Convoy SC 113, which left New York on Dec. 12-1942 and arrived Liverpool on Jan. 2-1943; O. B. Sørensen arrived Avonmouth that day, according to Page 3. This convoy is not available on my own site, but I've linked directly to Hague's listing at the end of this page. Later that month she's listed as bound for New York in station 63 of the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 161, originating in Liverpool on Jan. 12-1943. According to A. Hague, she returned in Convoy HX 230, departing New York on March 18-1943, arriving Liverpool on Apr. 2. This convoy is not available among the HX convoys on my own site, but again, see the external link at the end of this page. She subsequently headed back across the Atlantic with the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 178*, which originated in Liverpool on Apr. 12 and arrived New York, her destination on that occasion, on May 2 (she had joined from Clyde). Just a few days later she was one of several Norwegian ships joining Convoy HX 238 from New York, bound for Stanlow with gas oil in station 43. At the beginning of June we find her in the westbound Convoy ON 187*, departing Liverpool on June 1, arriving New York on the 15th, and later that month she returned to the U.K. in Convoy HX 245, bound for Avonmouth with a cargo of aviation fuel, station 105 - see also Page 4. She now appears in the westbound Convoy ON 193*, which originated in Liverpool on July 16 and arrived New York, her destination at that time, on the 31st. On Aug. 7 that same year she left New York with Convoy HX 251, cargo of gas oil for Avonmouth, station 135, again in the company of several other Norwegian ships. She returned with the westbound Convoy ON 200*, which originated in Liverpool on Sept. 2 an arrived New York on Sept. 18. From the U.S., she now made a voyage to Gibraltar, having joined Convoy UGS 19, which left Hampton Roads on Sept. 25-1943. O. B. Sørensen arrived Gibraltar on Oct. 12, then headed back to the U.S. on Oct. 19 in Convoy GUS 18, and arrived New York Nov. 6. Links to both these convoys have been provided at the end of this page. The following spring, she was in Convoy HX 291, which included several other Norwegian vessels, among them Heranger, Høyanger (Vice Commodore ship), Vav, Para, Villanger, Stirlingville, Minerva, Velox, and others. This convoy departed New York on May 10 and arrived Liverpool on the 27th; O. B. Sørensen's destination is given as Clyde, where she arrived on the 26th. At the beginning of June she joined the westbound Convoy ON 239*, which originated in Liverpool on June 3 and arrived New York on the 22nd, and just 2 days later we find her in Convoy HX 297 from New York, again bound for Clyde, where she arrived July 10. She subsequently joined the westbound Convoy ON 245*, originating in Liverpool on July 18-1944, arriving New York on Aug. 2. She now made voyages to Guantanamo, Curacao, Brisbane etc. - again, see Page 4, as well as Page 5.
Sold in 1951 and renamed Vikinga. Laid up at Naples from Jan. 10-1962. Sold in Oct.-1962 by Fratelli D'Amico, Italy, to breakers at Spezia, where she arrived on April 9-1963. Related external link: Back to O. B. Sørensen on the "Ships starting with O" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, E-mails from R. W. Jordan and misc. (ref. My sources).
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