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D/S Ole Bull To Ole Bull on the "Ships starting with O" page. Manager: Nortraship Built by North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, NC (153), launched as Sallie S. Cotton on May 7-1943 (International Freighting Corp. Inc., New York), delivered May 14. One of 10 (11?) ships added to Nortraship's Fleet in 1943, on bareboat charter from the United States War Shipping Administration. See Gains 1943 on my page "Ship Statistics and Misc." for a list of the others. Ole Bull was taken over in Wilmington on the day of delivery, May 14-1943. Captain: S. Bernt(?).
In my "Warsailor Stories" section there's an entry from Fred Turner, who joined this ship at the end of Jan.-1944. He says "we had a cargo of various supplies. The most guarded was 24 thousand cases of beer for American troops and the balance was clothing and military supplies. Again our convoy formed off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. After sailing through the Mediterranean Sea, we docked at Alexandria, Egypt, in March 1944. We continued our voyage through the Suez Canal bound for a small port in Iran. We arrived there in June. After unloading our cargo, we returned to Norfolk, on August 9th, 1944". (He also sailed with Solør, Britannia and Stirlingville). The above fits in with the fact that Ole Bull is mentioned in connection with Convoy GUS 46, which left Port Said on July 14-1944 and arrived Hampton Roads on Aug. 8. She was on a voyage from Khorram Shahr, and arrived Cape Henry on Aug. 8. Follow the link for further convoy details.
Sold in Oct.-1946 to the Norwegian government for Smedvik Tankrederi A/S (Peder Smedvig), Stavanger. Came under the Panamanian flag as South River in 1959 for Cia. Atlantica Pacifica S.A. (Panama R.P. & Baltimore, U.S.A. - also, Tidewater Commercial Co. Inc., Baltimore from 1965), then under Liberian flag as Kronos in 1965, Kronos Shipping Co. Ltd. (Dynamic Shipping Inc., New York). Sold to Japanese shipbreakers and broken up in 1967, having arrived Tsuneishi on March 24. Related external link: Back to Ole Bull on the "Ships starting with O" page. Norway (H. Westfal Larsen) lost a steamship by this name to WW I, built in Newcastle 1901 for C. Mathiesen e.a., Bergen - managed by Westfal-Larsen from July-1911, 1835 (1640?) gt - struck a mine (laid by UC-19) and sank in the North Sea on Jan. 11-1917, voyage Hartlepool-Rouen with coal - no casualties. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Liberty Ships in Peacetime, and their Contribution to World Shipping History" I. G. Steward - 1992.
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