The reason you're not finding anything, David, is because the name is misspelled in the registry, it's supposed to be "Fridtjof" or "Fridthjof". It was re-rigged as brig "Olaf" and stranded 1897 at Goatness Point, 3 miles east for Dunbar enroute Fredrikshald - Boness wi...

Hi David, you probably want this - https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/38605/625
Its her digitized Norwegian registration papers. Let me know if you can't open the link or need help with the translation.

Built in Brevik 1947, sold to Scotland 1979.

I have not been particularly impressed by the press on these vessels either. This is what I've pieced together of the events over the last few weeks: These ships are the sad remnants of Kampfgruppe Zieb, under the command of rear admiral Paul Willy Zieb (1892-1972), an engineer in charge of the Kons...

The issue of FF Bladid contains some back history of the Silva in Torshavn during the war on pages 9 and 10. https://olijacobsen.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/318.pdf Although everyone here speak fluent Faronesian and a translation is superfluous, the text notes that it was bombed in the Klaksvikfjord...

Norwegian ships can be searched at https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/sok? Andholmen - https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/325020/ Slotterøy - https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/369589/ Nornes - https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/574476/ Mars - https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/366657/ Måken - https://ww...

Doesn't it say "Anvers" in the picture?

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?62118
https://canmore.org.uk/site/101859/anve ... -north-sea