Owner: Skibs-A/S William Hansens Rederi
Manager: William Hansen, Bergen
Tonnage: 1655 gt, 2725 tdwt
Signal Letters: LDAV

Built by Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. Ltd., New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1920. Previous name: Canadian Miner until 1924.

Captain: Hans Lyder Jahn

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2

Thyra is listed in Convoy HN 8 from Norway to the U.K. in Jan.-1940. The following month, Arnold Hague has included her in Convoy OB 83, which left Liverpool on Febr. 1-1940 and joined up with Convoy OA 83 on Febr. 3, the combined convoy forming the Gibraltar bound Convoy OG 17F*, which arrived Gibraltar on Febr. 9. Thyra, however, was only bound for Bristol, where she arrived Febr. 5. But it does look like she crossed the Atlantic shortly thereafter; because according to Page 1 of the archive documents, she was in New Orleans on March 29, leaving that day for Halifax, where she arrived on Apr. 9, the day the Germans invaded Norway. From Halifax, she headed back to the U.K. on Apr. 14, having joined Convoy HX 35.

For info, there's also a ship by this name leaving Halifax in Convoy HX 20 on Febr. 16-1940, but this must have been the Swedish Thyra.

According to the external website that I've linked to below, Thyra subsequently joined Convoy OB 155, originating in Liverpool on May 26-1940 (Thyra sailed from Glasgow on May 25). This convoy joined up with Convoy OA 155 on May 29, forming the Gibraltar convoy OG 31*, which arrived there on June 3. But Thyra's destination is given as Bathurst (N.B.), so she must have left the convoy at some point in order to proceed to that destination. Arrival date is not given on the archive document mentioned above. (The Swedish Thyra is also listed in OB 155). She headed back to the U.K. again on July 7 in Convoy HX 56 from Halifax, having cancelled from the previous convoy, HX 55. She was bound for Manchester with pulp wood and arrived there on July 23.

The following month, she's listed in Convoy OB 204, which left Liverpool on Aug. 26, but she was only bound for Glasgow on that occasion, arriving there Aug. 28. From Clyde, she later joined Convoy OB 207, which had originated in Liverpool on Sept. 1 and dispersed Sept. 6, Thyra arriving Bathurst, N.B. on Sept. 16, according to Page 1. She returned to the U.K. in Convoy HX 79, together with Benwood, Sandanger, Egda, Triton, Høyanger and Ravnefjell. Thyra's destination is again given as Manchester, cargo of sulphite pulp, station 84 (according to the archive document, she arrived Preston on Oct. 27), and she joined from Sydney, C.B. The main portion departed Halifax on Oct. 8 and arrived Liverpool on Oct 23 with the loss of 12 ships; no Norwegian ships were lost, follow the link for more details, see also the external link below.

Thyra subsequently joined Convoy OB 244, together with 11 other Norwegian ships. This convoy left Liverpool on Nov. 17-1940 and dispersed Nov. 22, Thrya arriving Sheet Harbour on Dec. 7. She returned to the U.K. with the slow Convoy SC 17 from Halifax on Dec. 23-1940, bound for Clyde and Grimsby with moist pulp in station 12. She lost touch with the convoy in the morning of Jan. 4-1941.

In March-1941, Thyra is listed as bound for Seville in Convoy OG 55*, which originated in Liverpool on March 7 and arrived Gibraltar March 21; Thyra arrived Seville, via Bonanza, on March 30, having started out from Oban on March 8. She returned to the U.K. the following month in Convoy HG 59 from Gibraltar, bound for Barrow with iron ore, arriving that destination on May 2, according to Page 2. The only other Norwegian ship in this convoy was Atle Jarl.

* The OG convoys mentioned here will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, with more information on each; in the meantime, the ships sailing in them are named on the page listing ships in all OG convoys.

Related external links:
OB convoys - OB 155 is included, as is OB 83, but Thyra is not listed in this convoy in this particular section of the site. Note also that by going to this section of the same site (based on Arnold Hague's database), and clicking on "Ship Search" on the left hand side, using "Thyra" as keyword, some convoys that are not mentioned in my own text will come up - again, be aware that there was also a Swedish and a British ship by this name which will also appear in the results. Here are OB 83, OB 204, and OB 207, all mentioned above. As will be seen, the site also has the Norwegian Thyra in Convoy HG 76 in Dec.-1941, but this can't be correct, because she had already been sunk by then. It looks like only the Swedish Thyra could have been in this convoy, as can be seen on my own page about HG 76.

See also this chronological
list of OA and OB convoys 1940

HX 79, 19 Oct, 1940 - 20 Oct, 1940

* This would have been Convoy OB 325, which left Liverpool on May 21-1941, dispersed on the 29th (external link). Thyra had departed River Clyde on May 22, according to Page 2.

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