M/S Toledo
Updated Febr. 24-2009

To Toledo on the "Ships starting with T" page.


Source: Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
(unfortunately, Page 2 has some information missing in the margin)
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4

Some Convoy Voyages:

Follow the links provided for more info. More convoy information will be added.

Toledo can be found listed among the ships in Convoy HX 158 from Halifax to the U.K. in Nov.-1941, returning with the westbound Convoy ON 44*, which left Liverpool on Dec. 7 and dispersed on the 15th, Toledo arriving Halifax on Dec. 25.

In March-1942, she's listed in Convoy HX 181 from Halifax. She arrived Avonmouth on Apr. 5. See also Page 2.

She now made a voyage to Cape Town. According to the first external website that I've linked to at the end of this page, part of this voyage was made in station 74 of Convoy OS 27, which left Liverpool on May 2-1942 (arrived Freetown May 19); Toledo arrived Cape Town on June 2, having started out from Milford Haven on May 1. Several Norwegian ships took part. Her subsequent voyages are listed on Page 2 of the archive documents; please compare these to the convoy information resulting from following the instructions provided at the external link below.

In the spring of 1943, she's listed in Convoy SL 128, which departed Freetown on Apr. 20-1943 and arrived Liverpool on May 14. She had a general cargo and also carried 2 passengers, voyage Aden for Loch Ewe. The Norwegian Kristianiafjord, Rutenfjell and Evviva are also listed.

The following month, she made another Trans-Atlantic crossing, having joined the westbound Convoy ON 187*, originating in Liverpool on June 1-1943, arriving New York June 15; Toledo arrived Boston that day, having started out from Loch Ewe on June 1, according to Page 3. She headed back to the U.K. again on Aug. 9 in Convoy SC 139 from Halifax, again in the company of several other Norwegian ships. She had been cancelled earlier from the Halifax section of the faster Convoy HX 251. Toledo arrived Avonmouth on Aug. 25, and later returned across the Atlantic with the westbound Convoy ON 201*, which originated in Liverpool on Sept. 9-1943 and arrived New York on the 24th. From the U.S., she now headed to Port Said and Aden; again, follow the instructions provided at the external link below for some convoy information for her subsequent voyages, and compare these to the details found on Page 3 of the archive docs.

In Oct.-1944, we find Toledo in Convoy SL 175/MKS 66, the SL portion of which departed Freetown on Oct. 28-1944, joined up with the MKS portion from Gibraltar on Nov. 8, the combined convoy arriving Liverpool on Nov. 15. Toledo was on a voyage from Buenos Aires (left Oct. 9) to London with a general cargo consisting of linseed, hides, cased meats, fertilizer, fats, bones, willow and casings. The Norwegian Heimvard and Ragnhild also took part in this convoy.

A couple of weeks later, she joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ONS 37*, which originated in Liverpool on Nov. 28-1944 and arrived Halifax Dec. 21; Toledo, however, was bound for New York, where she arrived on Dec. 24, having started out from Clyde on Nov. 29.

She did not go back to the U.K. again until March-1945, when she, according to Arnold Hague, joined Convoy HX 345, which departed New York on March 19 and arrived Liverpool Apr. 2. This convoy is not available among the HX convoys included in my own Convoys section, but I've linked directly to Hague's listing at the end of this page. Toledo returned with the westbound Convoy ONS 48*, departing Liverpool on Apr. 21, arriving Halifax May 4; she was again bound for New York, arriving there on May 7. From there, she made a voyage to Macoris and Guantanamo Bay, and when she again headed to the U.K. in June, no convoy was necessary.

From Page 4, we learn that she got to go home to Norway in Oct.-1945.

POST WAR:

My father served on this ship from Apr. 1954 till June 1954. Laid up at Kongshavn, Oslo from Apr. 16-1958. Sold on Nov. 21-1958 to Einar M. Gaard A/S, Sigurd Haavik A/S and Trygve Klovning (Einar M. Gaard A/S, managers), Haugesund and renamed Gardvik. In general tramping and seasonal lumber trade in the White Sea. Aground at Hjeltefjord on a voyage from Igarka, USSR to Bologne on Sept. 14-1963 with a cargo of lumber. Refloated but badly damaged and sold in Nov.-1963 for breaking up. Arrived at Hong Kong on March 7-1964 to be broken up by Leung Yau Shipbreaking Co. Ltd.

Related external links:
OS/KMS Convoys - There's also has a section for the SL/MKS convoys. As can be seen, Toledo is listed in OS 27, SL 128 and SL 175/MKS 66. Note also that by going to this section of the site (based on Arnold Hague's database) and clicking on "Ship Search", typing "Toledo" as keyword, several convoys that are not mentioned in my own text will come up. Here is HX 345, mentioned above.

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Wilh. Wilhelmsen later had another ship by this name, 1960-1979.

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list, "Våre motorskip", Leif M. Bjørkelund & E. H. Kongshavn, and misc. - (ref. My sources).