M/S Brønnøy
Updated Aug. 13-2008

To Brønnøy on the "Ships starting with B" page.


Received from Bjørn Milde, Norway (from his own postcard collection).

Further to the above:

(Please note that only a few of her voyages are discussed here - for voyages in between those mentioned below, please go back to the Voyage Record).

Brønnøy, bound for Liverpool, sailed in Convoy SL 49, which departed Freetown on Sept. 27-1940 and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 17 - Drammensfjord is also listed. About a month later we find her, together with the Norwegian Kul, in Convoy OB 342, which left Liverpool on Nov. 11 and dispersed on the 15th, Brønnøy arriving Cristobal independently on Dec. 3. The external website that I've linked to within the above table has more on the SL and OB convoys.

She was scheduled for the Bermuda portion of Convoy HX 112 at the end of Febr.-1941, but instead joined Convoy HX 113 a few days later, cargo of sugar for Liverpool, where she arrived on March 22. Early the following month she joined Convoy OB 307, together with Chr. Th. Boe, Dagrun, Drammensfjord, Petter, and Thorshavet. This convoy departed Liverpool on Apr. 7-1941 and dispersed on the 13th, Brønnøy arriving Cristobal independently on May 1. She was scheduled to return to the U.K. with the Bermuda portion of Convoy HX 132 in June, but did not sail. She was also cancelled from HX 133 (in which Soløy and Vigrid were sunk, and Kongsgaard was torpedoed and damaged) and HX 134, but eventually got away with Convoy (B)HX 135 on June 24, cargo of nitrates for Newport, where she arrived (via Belfast Lough and a BB convoy) on July 15. Follow the links for more details on these convoys. In Aug.-1941 she's listed as bound for Buenos Aires in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 6, which left Liverpool on Aug. 11 and dispersed on Aug. 24, and is said to have arrived her destination independently on Sept. 20. She later made an independent voyage from there to Trinidad, then to Sydney, C.B. in order to join a convoy back to the U.K. She was scheduled for the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 55, in the middle of Nov., but instead joined the next convoy, SC 56, cargo of grain and maize for Leith. Again, follow the links for more convoy details.

In Jan.-1942 she's listed in station 44 of Convoy OS 16, voyage Oban-Freetown. The convoy originated in Liverpool on Jan. 5-1942 and arrived Freetown on the 23rd, and also included the Norwegian Bernhard, Kattegat, L. A. Christensen, Rio Branco, and Slemmestad, as well as the Panamanian Norvinn, which had Norwegian managers and is, therefore, listed under the N's of this website. Solstad and Vinga were also scheduled, but did not sail (note that they were not all bound for Freetown - ref. convoy link provided in the above table). In March that same year she can be found going in the other direction with Convoy SL 102, which left Freetown on March 4-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 26th. She was again in the company of other Norwegian ships, namely Belnor, Cypria and Velox - again, see the external link provided for more details.

Brønnøy later joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 89*, departing Liverpool on Apr. 23-1942. Cypria was again in company, as were Haakon Hauan, Hamlet, Nueva Granada, Pan Aruba, Samuel Bakke and Torvanger. This convoy arrived Halifax on May 5, but Brønnøy detached from the convoy that day in order to proceed to New York, where she arrived on May 7.

Skipping now to Sept.-1943, when she made a voyage from Tripoli to Bizerta with Convoy MKS 26 (scroll down to the second table on that page), then travelled from there to Gibraltar with Convoy GUS 17, subsequently joining Convoy MKS 27 from Gibraltar to the U.K. on Oct. 14, together with the Norwegian Sneland I and Toronto. In the middle of Dec.-1943 we find her in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ONS 25*, together with Danio, Minerva, Sommerstad, and Veni. This convoy left Liverpool on Dec. 15 and arrived Halifax on Jan. 3-1944, but Brønnøy's destination was New York, where she arrived on Jan. 6, via Cape Cod Canal and an XB convoy (ref. Voyage Record for more information on this and subsequent 1944 voyages).

In Oct.-1944 she was back in Freetown, joining Convoy SL 174 / MKS 65, voyage Rosario-Falmouth, cargo of linseed and general, carrying 1 passenger. The SL portion of this convoy (in which Brønnøy sailed) departed Freetown on Oct. 18-1944, joined up with the MKS* portion from Gibraltar at the end of that month, the combined convoy arriving Liverpool on Nov. 7. The Norwegian Jenny, Kristianiafjord and Norelg are also included (the latter joining with the MKS portion from Gibraltar).

That year was rounded off by sailing in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ONS 38*, which originated in Liverpool on Dec. 13-1944 and arrived Halifax on Jan. 2-1945. Brønnøy, however, was again bound for New York, where she arrived on Jan. 5, via Cape Cod Canal and an XB convoy. Norelg, Rutenfjell and Stirlingville also took part in ONS 38.

The rest of her 1945 voyages are noted in the above table. As can be seen, Arnold Hague has her in another Trans-Atlantic convoy in March that year, namely the slow Convoy SC 170, which left Halifax on March 17-1945 and arrived Liverpool on the 31st. This convoy is not available among the SC convoys included on my own site, but I've linked directly to it within the above table - the Norwegian Askepot, Biscaya, Brush, Chr. Th. Boe, Frontenac, Geisha, Romulus, Tercero and Titanian are also listed. At the end of the following month we find Brønnøy, together with Gabon, in another OS convoy, OS 125 combined with KMS 100*, which left Liverpool on Apr. 27-1945 and split up on May 1. Both Norwegian ships were bound for Freetown.

POST WAR:

Sold in 1949 and renamed Maur for A/S D/S Bjørn (Thv. Hansen), Oslo. Sold in 1952 to Genyo Kisen KK, Japan, and renamed Yasukawa Maru. Sold to Japanese breakers and sailed from Yokohama on Febr. 7-1962 for Yokosuka to be broken up.

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Other Ships by this name: Norway had another Brønnøy in the 1980's. This ship had originally been delivered as Barøy from Kaarbøs Mek. Verksted, Harstad to Ofotens Dampskibsselskap, Narvik on May 14-1969, 439 gt, in service Trondheim-Western Finnmark. Lengthened in 1973, 492 gt. Laid up at Langstein 1979-'80, sold on May 24-1981 to K/S Nord-Poolen A/S, Trondheim. Sold on May 27-1986 to P/R Brønnøy Ship (Petter A. Slotvik), Brønnøysund, renamed Brønnøy and placed in coastal service between the south and north of Norway. Remeasured June 11-1987, 299 gt. Placed in the DK-NOR service from Denmark to Norwegian ports in 1991 and still in same service in 1996. A/S Borgestad, Porsgrunn also had a Brønnøy after the war, delivered in July-1956, built at Kiel, 9173 gt. Sold in 1966 and renamed Avior, renamed Hadji Dimitar in 1970, Greek Apostolos M IV in 1980 - broken up in 1984. (Misc. sources, including Ofoten og Vesteraalens DS fleet list, Finn R. Hansen - ref. My sources).