D/S Rolf Jarl

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Source: Bjørn Milde's postcard collection.

Some War Voyages:

A French visitor to my site has told me that Rol Jarl around March 10-1940 was stopped for examination off Algeria by French patrol boats. Ordered to Oran for visit. Released a few days later.

It looks like she was in Norway around the time of the German invasion, but she was able to get out and went to France in May-1940, thereby ending up in allied service.

In Oct.-1940 she was scheduled for Convoy HX 83 (Sydney portion), but did not sail. Her destination at the time was Belfast for orders, cargo of lumber, and she joined the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 9.

At the beginning of Dec. that year she shows up in Convoy OB 256, leaving Liverpool on Dec. 8-1940. Her destination is given as St. John, N.B. - ref. external link below for more.

In Jan.-1941 she was scheduled for Convoy SC 19 from Halifax (timber for Belfast), but cancelled and joined the next convoy, SC 20. Towards the end of March that year she was scheduled for the Gibraltar-U.K. Convoy HG 57, but did not sail, joining instead the next convoy, HG 58, cargo of sweet oranges for Bristol.

That summer, in June-1941, she can be found among the ships in Convoy SL 78, which departed Freetown on June 18 and arrived Liverpool on July 12. The following month she was one of 14 Norwegian ships in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 4. Her destination is given as Sydney, Cape Breton, and she had station 92 (Atle Jarl also sailed in SL 78 as well as in ON 4 - the external website below has more on the SL convoy).

She was scheduled for the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 54 in Nov.-1941, but instead joined the next convoy, SC 55.

In July-1942 she's listed in the slow Convoy SC 91, and the following month we find her in station 62 of the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 122, in which Trolla was sunk.

POST WAR:

Sold in Aug.-1950 to Reederei Richard Schröder, Hamburg and renamed Maria Schröder. Ran aground and sank in the Red Sea on Apr. 11-1956, on a voyage from Akaba to West Germany.

Related external link:
SL Convoys - There's also a section on the OB convoys. As can be seen, Rolf Jarl is listed in OB 256 and SL 78 - here's the main page.

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Nordenfjeldske's other ships by this name:
This was the company's 2nd ship by this name. The first Rolf Jarl was delivered from Trondhjems Mekaniske Verksted in June-1911, 1265 gt. Sunk by by U-43 on Sept. 27-1916, near Hornøy light (close to Vardø). She was on a voyage Aalesund-Archangel with a cargo of herring in barrels at the time. The crew was transferred to Roald Jarl, which was nearby. Nordenfjeldske also had a Rolf Jarl later on, built in Emden in 1958, on a 5 years time charter for Canadian Transport Co. Ltd., Vancouver (renewed for another 18 months in Dec.-1963). Sold in 1965 to Copenhagen and renamed Heering Mille, sold again in 1965 (Liberia) and renamed Malaga, then sold again in 1972 to Somalia and renamed Uliang, later to Hong Kong/Panama (1978) and renamed New Rubi. Still in service as such in 1982.

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Nordenfjeldske - 1857-1985", by Finn R. Hansen, and misc. (ref. My sources).