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D/T Orwell To Orwell on the "Ships starting with O" page. Manager: Tønsberg Hvalfangerselskap A/S, Tønsberg Built by C. Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow in 1905 as general cargo vessel Knight Templar. Sold to Norway in 1925 and converted to whale factory Orwell.
The external website that I've linked to at the end of this text has Orwell in station 94 of Convoy SL 55 from Freetown in Nov.-1940; she was bound for Gibraltar. Scheduled for Convoy HX 100 in Jan.-1941, but did not sail. Instead she joined the next convoy, HX 101, bound for Liverpool, joining the convoy from Bermuda. Several other Norwegian ships also took part, as will be seen by following the links. Damaged during an air attack in Liverpool on March 14-1941. In Aug.-1941 Orwell was in station 54 of Convoy HX 144 along with the Norwegian Suderøy (station 63), Polartank (station 95), Hallanger (station 53), Eidanger (station 83), Havprins (station 82), Grena (station 73), Evanger (station 84), Norse King (station 15), Vinland (station 66) and Sommerstad (in station 93), all listed on this website. In Nov. that same year she shows up in the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 54. Going back to the external link below, we find Orwell in station 24 of Convoy OS 30 in June-1942, voyaging from Liverpool to Curacao via Trinidad in ballast. In June-1943 she sailed in HX 242, joining the convoy from Halifax, bound for Milford Haven and Devonport. The following month she's listed in the slow Convoy SC 137 from Halifax to the U.K., in Sept. that same year she was in Convoy SC 141, and in Oct. she sailed in Convoy SC 145. She's also listed in Convoy SC 155, which left Halifax on March 14-1944 and arrived Liverpool on the 29th. Later that year, in Oct.-1944, she shows up in the Iceland-U.K. Convoy RU 137. In the middle of Dec.-1944 she joined Convoy SC 163 from Halifax, her destination Londonderry. At the end of Jan.-1945 she was scheduled for the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 166, but instead joined SC 167 the following month. Related External link: Back to Orwell on the "Ships starting with O" page. Tønsberg had previously had another whale factory by this name, built in Glasgow in 1897, 3789 gt, became Norwegian in 1911. Later renamed Whale in 1925 when the new Orwell (ex Knight Templar) took over, then Congo from 1930, broken up 1934. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Roger W. Jordan - and misc.
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