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M/T Ora To Ora on the "Ships starting with O" page. Manager: O. B. Sørensen & Co., Arendal Built in Malmö, Sweden in 1937. Related item on this website: Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
For some convoy information, please follow the instructions provided at the first external website that I've linked to below, and compare the results with the voyages listed on the various archive documents, starting with Page 3. On Febr. 5-1944, Ora rescued 37 survivors from the British Fort Buckingham, which had been torpedoed and sunk by U-188 on Jan. 20. The Norwegian Kongsdal also rescued survivors from this ship. See the links below for an account of the rescue. The first account states that Ora was bound for Australia with aviation fuel at the time, so the survivors were transferred HMS Redoubt and later landed in Bombay. According to Page 4, Ora had left Bandar Abbas on Jan. 30 (see Convoy PA 67 below) and arrived Melbourne on March 1. Related external links: Fort Ships of WW II - Fort Buckingham is listed on this page. A WW2 survival story of the U-Boat U188 and two of her victims. Details of Ora's rescue of survivors from Fort Buckingham are included in this account. The page also has a narrative of the time spent on rafts. Rescue of Fort Buckingham survivors - As told by a crew member, Norman Gibson (as is the account above). Back to Ora on the "Ships starting with O" page.
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