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Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939 - 1945
Ships starting with Ø
Ships in Foreign Trade (allied service)

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NS
 = the ship was in Nortraship's Fleet
*
 = the ship was sunk (or otherwise lost)
D/S
 = steam ship
D/T
 = steam tanker
M/S
 = motor vessel
M/T
 = motor tanker
T/T
 = turbine tanker

Ø
Name of Ship
Managed By
Tonnage
  • D/S Ørnefjell NS
Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo
1334 gt
Built in Oslo 1937.

Continue to D/S Ørnefjell for a list of some convoy voyages and misc. info.
  • D/S Ørnen 3 NS
A/S Thor Dahl, Sandefjord
251 gt
Built in Oslo 1930.

Whale catcher (A/S Ørnen, Sandefjord). Hired by Royal Navy as auxiliary patrol vessel and minesweeper from Jan 1940.

This original document from the National Archives of Norway shows some of her voyages.

POST WAR: Returned to Dahl in Dec.-1945. Sold in June-1952 to I/S Tromstrål, Tromsø, renamed Tromstrål I. (For info; Seksern was sold the following year, renamed Tromstrål II). Ørnen 3 was sold again later and got the name Sjøhelt. De-rigged and broken up in Kristiansund in 1982.

(Thor Dahl had previously had a whale catcher named Ørnen, built 1902, 103 gt, which caught whales for their factory Admiralen in May-1906, the first whale factory to the Antarctic Oct. 21-1905, ex Gibraltar, sold 1909).
  • M/T Østhav NS
Trygve Lodding, Oslo
8417 8525? gt
Built in Hamburg 1931.

Please see M/T Østhav.
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