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D/S Tommeliten To Tommeliten on the "Ships starting with T" page.
Manager: Eyvind Marcussen, Askerøy Built by J. Th. Wilmink, Groningen, The Netherlands in 1916 for Sigurd Helmers Olsens Rederi, Bergen, who owned her until 1925. She subsequently had 2 more owners before Eyvind Marcussen took over in 1939. Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
As will be seen when going to Page 1 above, Tommeliten got out of Norway shortly before the German invasion, which took place on Apr. 9-1940, and thereby ended up in Allied control. Apart from a voyage to Brest and another to Cherbourg in the spring of 1940, she was subsequently in service around the U.K. Not much convoy information is available for this ship. She's listed, together with the Norwegian Cresco, Heien, Inger Elisabeth, James Hawson, Jernland, Lyng, Rimac, Røyksund, Selvik, Varangberg and Vigrid, in Convoy EC 2, which departed Southend on Apr. 3-1941 and arrived Clyde on Apr. 10; according to Page 2, Tommeliten arrived Harwich from Southend on Apr. 3 - the external website that I've linked to below has the names of other ships in this convoy. What strikes me when looking at her voyages, is that they were very short, and though she did occasionally spend a few days in port, it looks like her crew did not get much chance to go ashore in between voyages. According to Page 18, she was in Gravesend on VE Day, May 8-1945, having arrived there from Rochester on May 4, leaving again on May 10, so this was one of those times when she spent a few days in port. From Page 19, we learn that she got to go home to Norway already in July-1945, making a few more voyages home before the year was over, and again in Jan.-1946 (see Page 20).
Sold abroad in 1949 and deleted from Norwegian registers. Related external link: Back to Tommeliten on the "Ships starting with T" page.
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