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D/S Tanafjord To Tanafjord on the "Ships starting with T" page. Manager: Den Norske Amerikalinje A/S, Oslo Launched on March 23-1921 by Napier & Miller Ltd., Old Kilpatrick, Glasgow (Yard No. 233) for NAL and delivered in Dec. that same year.
The first external webste that I've linked to at the end of this page has her in station 103 of Convoy SL 73, which left Freetown on Apr. 27-1941 and arrived Liverpool on May 25. Follow the link for names of other Norwegian ships taking part. Tanafjord was in Liverpool during an air attack there on June 10-1941. She escaped unscathed, but one of her crew was killed. Going back to the external website below, we find her in station 55 of Convoy SL 101 in Febr.-1942. This convoy departed Freetown on Febr. 21 and arrived Liverpool on March 15. Several other Norwegian ships also took part (Dagrun, Drammensfjord, Elin K. and Tabor). Later that year, in May/June-1942, she's listed in station 93 of Convoy OS 29, voyaging from Clyde to Capetown, Bombay and Karachi. In Jan.-1943 she shows up in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 161, which left Liverpool on Jan. 12 and arrived New York on the 31st. However, it looks like she may have been bound for an African port, as she was detached from the convoy on Jan. 25. In May/June-1943 she can be found in Convoy SL 130/MKS 14. The SL portion of this convoy (in which Tanafjord sailed) left Freetown on May 30-1943, joined up with the MKS portion from Gibraltar on June 11, the combined convoy arriving Liverpool on June 21. Tanafjord had a general cargo, voyage Lagos/Takoradi for Loch Ewe. Again, several Norwegian ships took part. In July/Aug.-1943 I have her in the Liverpool-Gibraltar convoy Convoy KMS 22, bound for Port said with stores. Note that she's also included in the second table on my page for this convoy, which arrived Port Said on Aug. 20. She's listed among the ships in Convoy HX 296 from New York in June-1944, bound for Liverpool with general cargo. In Aug.-1944 she was in Convoy HX 303 with 16 other Norwegian ships, namely Romulus, Dalfonn, Noravind, Atlantic, Sommerstad, Skotaas, Geisha, Thorhild, Petter, Stirlingville, Rena, Para, Titanian, Mui Hock, Fjordaas and Norse Lady, all listed on this website - use the alphabet index at the end of this page to find more information on them. Tanafjord joined this convoy from Halifax, HX 303 having originated in New York. At the end of Jan.-1945 she shows up in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 166, bound for Liverpool with general cargo. Tanafjord was also in the westbound convoy ON 288 with 9 other Norwegian ships, namely Dageid, Villanger, Viggo Hansteen, Slemmestad, G. C. Brøvig, Polartank, Heranger, Harald Torsvik and Høyanger, all listed on this website. This convoy, which will be added to my Convoys section in due course, departed Southend on March 2-1945 with 108 ships, and arrived New York on March 19. The Norwegian commodore, R. G. Bruusgaard was in the British Port Fremantle.
Tonnage became 5930 gt, 3649 net in 1950. Arrived Stavanger on Oct. 14-1954 for scrapping by Stavanger Skipsopphugging Co. Related external links: The 1 who was killed, June-1941 - Ordinary Seaman Anton Skår is commemorated.. Norway Heritage - has quite a bit of information on the NAL's ships. Back to Tanafjord on the "Ships starting with T" page. Den Norske Amerikalinje had a total of 4 ships by this name through the years, this was the second one in line. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, Norwegian America Line fleet list, "The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague, and misc. - (ref. My sources).
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