M/S Tai Yin

To Tai Yin on the "Ships starting with T" page.

Received from (and taken by) Kent Malo, Quebec in the fall of 1957. He was on the Canadian destroyer HMCS Micmac at the time.

Photo by Herbert Baasch, author of "Handelsschiffe im Kriegseinsatz".
The picture was taken in 1961 off Cuxhaven (Germany).
Received from the owner of Baasch's photo collection.

See also:
A Guestbook message - re Tai Yin's bell (it appears that this is, in fact, not Tai Yin's bell).

Misc. War Voyages:

A French visitor to my website has told me that Tai Yin sailed from Casablanca on June 11-1940 in Convoy 5-KF (see link at the end of this page) under French escort, and was at Brest on June 15. Later that month she was at Le Verdon, France (Gironde Inlet). The captains of the allied ships at La Verdon were called on board the British cruiser Arethusa on June 18 to be told that the city was being evacuated and were instructed to sail to Falmouth as soon as possible. Tai Yin and Thermopylæ departed without passengers as they were unable to get water.

She's listed as sailing in Convoy OA 196, which left Methil on Aug. 9-1940, bound for Trinidad in ballast, station 41. See the external links provided at the end of this page.

In Nov.-1940, she was in Convoy HX 90 (joined from Bermuda), but lost touch with the convoy and returned to port. She was bound for Clyde and Hull with a cargo of steel, wool, wheat and general. She was scheduled for Convoy HX 99 the following month, but did not sail. Follow the links for much more information on these convoys.

Tai Yin was at Liverpool during the intense air attacks in May-1941, but escaped with minor damages, as did Temeraire. Other ships in Liverpool during these attacks were D/S Sollund, M/S Bra-Kar, M/S Mosdale, and D/S Stromboli

In May-1945 she's listed in Convoy MKS 102, which left Gibraltar on May 20 and arrived Liverpool on the 28th. This convoy will be added, in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all MKS convoys.

Notethat the external site below has her in some other convoys as well.

POST WAR:

Re-engined in 1951 (see above). Sold in 1961 to Hanwa Co., Osaka, Japan for scrapping. Delivered at Osaka on Aug. 11-1961 and demolition commenced at Sakurajima on Aug. 25.

Related external links:
OB & OA convoys - Note also that by going to this section of the same site and clicking on "Ship Search", using "Tai Yin" as keywords, some more convoys will come up. Here is Convoy 5-KF, mentioned in my text above.

The Australian War Memorial has another picture of this ship. It can be found by running a search through their collection search page.

Back to Tai Yin on the "Ships starting with T" page.

(Tai Yin is Chinese for "the moon").

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list and misc. (ref. My sources).