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D/S Vigør
Updated Jan. 24-2010

To Vigør on the "Ships starting with V" page.

Partial Crew List

Manager: S. Ugelstad, Oslo
Tonnage:
1518 gt, 2600 tdwt
Signal Letters: LIYP

Built in Langesund, Norway in 1935.

Captain: Abraham Asvall

Related item on this website:
Guestbook message from the grandson of Captain Asvall. He was later killed when Hallfried was sunk.

Her voyages are listed on this original document received from the National Archives of Norway.

Please compare the above voyages with Arnold Hague's Voyage Record below.

Voyage Record
From March-1940 to June-1940:

(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database).

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

Errors may exist, and some voyages are missing.

Departure From To Arrival Convoy Remarks
1940 March 12 Kirkwall Norwegian Waters March 14 ON 19
Apr. 4 Norwegian Waters Methil Apr. 7 HN 24 Arr. Sunderland Apr. 9 - See archive document
May 4 Sunderland Southend May 6 FS 162 Convoy available at FS 162
(external link)
Missing voyages, see document above
May 19 Tyne Southend* May 21 FS 174 *Downs
Convoy available at FS 174
(external link)
More missing voyages, archive document
June 12 Verdon Casablanca June 19 64 X Convoy available at 64 X
(external link)


 Some Convoy Voyages: 

In the middle of March-1940, Vigør is listed in the U.K.-Norway Convoy ON 19. The following month she joined Convoy HN 24, which arrived Methil from Norway on Apr. 7; in other words, she got out of Norway just before the German invasion, in fact, she arrived Sunderland that day, Apr. 9-1940. Several Norwegian ships took part in both these convoys. From Sunderland, she proceeded to Rouen on May 4, where she arrived, via The Downs, on May 7, according to the archive document. She headed back to The Downs again on May 9. At the end of that month she made a voyage from Plymouth to Nantes, with arrival May 31, and it looks like she had also made another voyage to France prior to this (Havre), though this voyage is not detailed on the document. Departure Nantes for Casablanca is given as June 7.

 Interned - 1940: 

Vigør was 1 of the 26 Norwegian ships interned in North and West Africa. A French visitor to my website has told me that she sailed from Le Verdon on June 12-1940 in Convoy 64-X (external link) under French escort and was in Casablanca about June 19. Seized in Port Lyautey in July-1940. Under French flag at Port Lyautey from Aug. 7-1941 as Ste Marcelle. Sailed from Port-Lyautey on ?-41 in convoy. At Casablanca on ? Sailed from Casablanca on Sept. 15-1941 in convoy. At Oran Sept. 18.

"Nortraships flåte" states she was interned on June 22-1940, later requisitioned. "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig" agrees with the internment date and place, adding she was moved to Port Lyautey around Sept. 11-1940*, requisitioned and renamed on Aug. 7-1941. R. W. Jordan's "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939" says she was seized in Casablanca in June-1940 (all sources agree she was renamed Ste Marcelle).

* According to the archive document, she sailed from Casablanca on Oct. 2-1940 and arrived Port Lyautey the same day.

Partial Crew List:
"Sjømann - Lang vakt" by Guri Hjeltnes, says Vigør had a crew of 18, all Norwegian, 3 escaped, 1 went home.
What follows appears to be a list of those who were left in Africa at the time of the Allied invasion in Nov.-1942.

Captain **
Abraham Asvall
Able Seaman
Edvin Kvam
Able Seaman
Johnny Andreassen
Able Seaman
Arnold Jonassen
Able Seaman
John H. Olsen
Able Seaman
Bjarne Richvoldsen
2nd Engineer
Edvin Kalstø
Donkeyman
Karl Haugen
Stoker
Karl Brandstrøm
Stoker
Einar Haltbak
Stoker
Jacob Fris
Steward
Frithjof Svendsen
Mess Boy
Trygve Rigels
Mess Boy
Alf Kaare Larsen
originally 18
** Captain Asvall later lost his life in the sinking of Hallfried.

I have a book entitled "Nordmenn i fangenskap" by Kristian Ottosen which lists Norwegians who were kept as prisoners during the war, and will look up the above names as soon as I can, to see if there's any more information on where they were kept.

 Final Fate - 1942 (as Ste Marcelle): 

Reported on March 14-1942 as having been torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine in the western Mediterranean when on a voyage from Marseilles to Tunisia. According to J. Rohwer Ste Marcelle was torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Mocenigo (Monechi), 25 n. miles from Cape Carbonaire on that date.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Volume II (Norwegian Maritime Museum), and misc. others as named within the above text for cross checking facts - (ref. My sources).

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