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M/S Toulouse To Toulouse on the "Ships starting with T" page.
Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
As can be seen when going to Page 1 above, Toulouse had just been to Norway the month before the Germans invaded the country (Apr. 9-1940). Her departure date from Oslo is not given, but she arrived Lisbon on March 25, leaving again for Table Bay on the 28th, with arrival Apr. 23. She later proceeded to Australia. She's listed among the ships in the Bermuda portion of Convoy HX 82 in Oct.-1940. Follow the link for more details on this convoy. At the end of 1942, we find her in Convoy DN 6, which left Durban on Dec. 11-1942 (available at the external website that I've linked to at the end of this page). Her destination is given as Mombasa, where she arrived, via Diego Suarez (Dec. 19/Dec.27), on Dec. 30, leaving again for Melbourne on Jan. 17-1943, according to Page 2. That page also shows a long gap in her voyages for that year, from May 11-1943, when she had arrived Suez from Aden, to March 4-1944, when she left Suez for Port Sudan. She later returned to Suez, then on to Port Said, where she joined Convoy MKS 44 on March 20. This convoy joined up with the Freetown Convoy SL 153 off Gibraltar on Apr. 2, before proceeding to the U.K. as the combined Convoy SL 153/MKS 44, arriving Liverpool on Apr. 13 - again, see the external link below. Her voyage is given as Port Sudan and Suez to Mersey with cotton, diesel oil and vehicles. The Norwegian Boreas also joined with the MKS portion, which will also be added to an individual page in my own Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all MKS convoys. It now looks like she spent over 2 months in Liverpool. Page 3 also shows long gaps in her voyage information.
Sold to Oleada Cia. Naviera (Michail A. Karageorgis, manager), Greece on Oct. 28-1959 and renamed Michalakis. Fire broke out on March 26-1962 in No. 1 hold when she was about 8 miles north of San Juan, P.R. during a voyage from Callao (just outside Lima, Peru) to Hull with a cargo of fishmeal in paper bags. Put in at San Juan on March 27 and fire extinguished on the 31st. Damage was beyond economical repair and she was abandoned on July 30-1962 to insurance underwriters as a constructive total loss. Sold for demolition on Aug. 24-1962 to Buques y Materiales S.A. Arrived Bilbao on Aug. 26 to be broken up. Related external link: Back to Toulouse on the "Ships starting with T" page. Wilh. Wilhelmsen later had another ship by this name, 1962-1974. Go to this message in my Guestbook for more details on this ship. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list.
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