Owner: Carl Olsens Tankrederi A/S
Manager: Carl Olsen, Arendal
Tonnage: 5237 gt

Built by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co. Ltd., Middlesbrough in 1910. Previous name: Berwindmoor until 1917. Originally ore ship, converted to tanker in 1923. Purchased by Carl Olsen in 1930.

Voyage Record From Apr.-1941 to June-1945:

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

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each (as will be seen, most of them also had other Norwegian ships).

Errors may exist, and several voyages are missing.

Compare Arnold Hague's information with these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
(includes voyages missing from A. Hague's records - from March-1940 to Apr.-1946)
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	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1941	Apr. 9	Halifax	Liverpool	May 1	SC 28	–
	June 20	Liverpool	–	–	OB 337	For Aruba. Dispersed in 48 17N 20 40W, June 28. See OB 337 (external link)
	June 28	Dispersed from OB 337	Aruba	July 13	Independent	–
	July 15	Aruba	Freetown	Aug. 1	Independent	–
	Aug. 5	Freetown	St Vincent, C.V.	Aug. 11	SL 83	To St. Vincent, C.V. See SL 83 (external link - Buccinum not included), and this external page
	Aug. 15	Cape Verdes	Capetown	Sept. 6	Independent	–
	Sept. 11	Capetown	Durban	Sept. 16	Independent	–
	Sept. 22	Durban	Abadan	Oct. 14	Independent	–
	Oct. 16	Abadan	Bombay	Oct. 24	Independent	–
	Oct. 28	Bombay	Abadan	Nov. 4	Independent	–
	Nov. 6	Abadan	Bombay	Nov. 13	Independent	–
	Nov. 20	Bombay	Abadan	Nov. 27	Independent	–
	Nov. 29	Abadan	Aden	Dec. 8	Independent	–
	Dec. 11	Aden	Abadan	Dec. 21	Independent	–
	Dec. 23	Abadan	Bombay	Dec. 30	Independent	At Bombay until Apr. 11-1942
1942	Apr. 12	Bombay	Abadan	Apr. 20	Independent	–
	Apr. 30	Abadan	–	–	Independent	–
	May 6	Bombay	Abadan	May 15	Independent	–
	May 17	Abadan	Bombay	May 24	Independent	–
	June 1	Bombay	Abadan	–	Independent	–
	June 10	Abadan	Bombay	June 18	Independent	–
	June 25	Bombay	Abadan	July 6	Independent	–
	July 11	Abadan	Bombay	July 19	Independent	–
	July 28	Bombay	Abadan	Aug. 6	Independent	–
	Aug. 9	Abadan	Bombay	Aug. 16	Independent	–
	Aug. 23	Bombay	Abadan	Aug. 31	Independent	–
	Sept. 3	Abadan	Bombay	Sept. 11	Independent	–
	Sept. 17	Bombay	Abadan	Sept. 24	Independent	–
	Sept. 26	Abadan	Colombo	Oct. 7	Independent	–
	Oct. 10	Colombo	Trincomalee	Oct. 12	Independent	–
	Oct. 16	Trincomalee	Bandar Mahshahr	–	Independent	–
	Nov. 1	Bandar Mahshahr	Bandar Abbas	–	Independent	–
	Nov. 10	Bandar Abbas	Bombay	Nov. 16	PB 11	See PB 11 (external link)
	Dec. 4	Bombay	Colombo	Dec. 9	Independent	–
	Dec. 9	Colombo	Trincomalee	Dec. 12	C 36	See C 36 (external link)
	Dec. 16	Trincomalee	Bombay	Dec. 22	Independent	–
1943	Jan. 1	Bombay	Abadan	Jan. 9	BP 64B	Independent from Bandar Abbas. See BP 64B (external link)
	Jan. 11	Abadan	Bandar Abbas	Jan. 14	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	Bandar Abbas	Bombay	Jan. 23	PB 22	See PB 22 (external link)
	Jan. 24	Bombay	Colombo	Jan. 29	BM 38	See BM 38 (external link)
	Febr. 3	Colombo	Addu	Febr. 7	C 42	See C 42 (external link)
	Febr. 14	Addu	Colombo	Febr. 18	A 3	See A 3 (external link)
	May 15	Colombo	Bombay	May 21	Independent	*
	* It looks like she had been intended for Convoy MB 35 (external link), which left Colombo on May 13 and arrived Bombay on the 17th, but experienced engine trouble and sailed independently on the 15th instead.
	May 25	Bombay	Bandar Abbas	May 31	BP 81	See BP 81 (external link)
	May 31	Bandar Abbas	Abadan	June 2	Independent	See also Page 2
	June 4	Abadan	Aden	June 15	Independent	–
	June 15	Aden	Suez	June 21	Independent	–
	July 7	Port Said	Haifa	July 8	Independent	–
	July 14	Haifa	Alexandria	July 16	Independent	–
	July 20	Alexandria	Port Said	July 21	Independent	–
	July 23	Port Said	Haifa	July 24	Independent	–
	July 28	Haifa	Alexandria	July 30	Independent	–
	Aug. 2	Alexandria	Port Said	Aug. 3	Independent	–
	Aug. 7	Port Said	Haifa	Aug. 8	Independent	–
	Aug. 16	Haifa	Port Said	Aug. 17	Independent	–
	Aug. 21	Suez	Aden	Aug. 28	Independent	See also Page 3
	Sept. 5	Aden	Suez	Sept. 13	Independent	–
	Oct. 3	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 4	Independent	–
	Oct. 8	Haifa	Alexandria	Oct. 10	Independent	–
	Oct. 14	Alexandria	Port Said	Oct. 15	Independent	–
	Oct. 17	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 18	Independent	–
	Oct. 21	Haifa	Port Said	Oct. 22	Independent	–
	Oct. 26	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 27	Independent	–
	Oct. 30	Haifa	Port Said	Oct. 31	Independent	–
	Nov. 4	Port Said	Haifa	Nov. 5	Independent	–
	Nov. 8	Haifa	Port Said	Nov. 9	Independent	–
1944	Jan. 29	Suez	Aden	Febr. 3	Independent	–
	Febr. 7	Aden	Bandar Abbas	Febr. 14	AP 60	See AP 60 (external link)
	Febr. 14	Bandar Abbas	Abadan	Febr. 17	Independent	–
	Febr. 18	Abadan	Bandar Abbas	Febr. 20	Independent	–
	Febr. 22	Bandar Abbas	Aden	Febr. 29	PA 70	See PA 70 (external link)
	Febr. 29	Aden	Suez	March 6	Independent	–
	March 10	Port Said	Augusta	March 16	MKS 43	Convoy will be added. See ships in MKS convoys
	March 17	Augusta	Brindisi	March 19	AH 31	See AH 31 (external link)
	March 23	Brindisi	Bari	March 23	Independent	–
	March 29	Bari	Augusta	March 31	HA 33	See HA 33 (external link)
	Apr. 1	Augusta	Port Said	Apr. 6	KMS 45	Convoy will be added. See ships in KMS convoys
	May 17	Suez	Aden	May 24	Independent	–
	May 25	Aden	Abadan	June 4	Independent	–
	June 6	Abadan	Aden	June 18	Independent	–
	June 18	Aden	Suez	June 25	Independent	–
	June 29	Port Said	Alexandria	June 30	Independent	–
	July 9	Alexandria	Augusta	July 14	MKS 55	Convoy will be added. See ships in MKS convoys
	July 16	Augusta	Bari	July 18	AH 55	See AH 55 (external link)
	July 22	Brindisi	Augusta	July 24	HA 56	See HA 56 (external link)
	July 24	Augusta	Port Said	July 29	UGS 47	See UGS 47 (external link)
	July 29	Port Said	Haifa	July 30	Independent	–
	Aug. 1	Haifa	Port Said	Aug. 2	Independent	–
	Aug. 7	Port Said	Bizerta	Aug. 14	MKS 58	Convoy will be added. See ships in MKS convoys
	Sept. 2	Bizerta	Alexandria	Sept. 7	UGS 51	See UGS 51 (external link)
	Sept. 22	Alexandria	Port Said	Sept. 23	Independent	–
	Sept. 24	Port Said	Haifa	Sept. 25	Independent	–
	Sept. 28	Haifa	Famagusta	–	Independent	–
	Sept. 29	Famagusta	Haifa	Oct. 4	Independent	Voyage data unknown
	Oct. 6	Haifa	Port Said	Oct. 7	Independent	–
	Oct. 12	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 13	Independent	–
	Oct. 15	Haifa	Port Said	Oct. 16	Independent	–
	Oct. 19	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 20	Independent	–
	Oct. 21	Haifa	Port Said	Oct. 22	Independent	–
	Oct. 22	Port Said	Alexandria	Oct. 23	GUS 56	See GUS 56 (external link)
	Oct. 27	Alexandria	Malta	Nov. 1	MKS 66	Convoy will be added. See ships in MKS convoys
	Nov. 7	Malta	Port Said	Nov. 12	KMS 67	Convoy will be added. See ships in KMS convoys
	Nov. 13	Suez	Aden	Nov. 20	Independent	–
	Nov. 20	Aden	Abadan	Dec. 2	Independent	–
	Dec. 3	Abadan	Aden	Dec. 13	Independent	–
	Dec. 13	Aden	Suez	Dec. 20	Independent	See also Page 4
	Dec. 22	Port Said	Augusta	Dec. 27	Independent	–
	Dec. 29	Augusta	Brindisi	Dec. 31	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 4	Brindisi	Haifa	Jan. 10	Independent	–
	Jan. 13	Haifa	Augusta	Jan. 21	Independent	–
	Jan. 22	Augusta	Naples	–	Independent	–
	Jan. 30	Naples	Haifa	Febr. 5	Independent	–
	Febr. 10	Haifa	Malta	Febr. 16	Independent	–
	Febr. 19	Malta	Haifa	Febr. 25	Independent	–
	Febr. 27	Haifa	Piraeus	March 3	Independent	–
	March 7	Piraeus	Haifa	March 10	Independent	–
	March 13	Haifa	Alexandria	March 15	Independent	–
	March 15	Alexandria	Piraeus	March 18	Independent	–
	March 23	Piraeus	Haifa	March 26	Independent	–
	March 28	Haifa	Piraeus	Apr. 1	Independent	–
	Apr. 4	Piraeus	Alexandria	Apr. 8	Independent	–
	June 9	Alexandria	Haifa	June 11	Independent	–
	June 16	Haifa	Port Said	June 17	Independent	–
	June 20	Port Said	Haifa	June 21	Independent	–
	June 22	Haifa	Alexandria	June 24	Independent	–
	June 27	Alexandria	Haifa	June 29	Independent	Haifa/Port Said trade to end 1945 See Page 5 and Page 6

Notes:

Buccinum was scheduled for the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 26 in March-1941, in which Helle and several others were sunk, but she did not sail. She was also cancelled from Convoy SC 27 (in which Favorit was sunk), but finally got away with SC 28, departing Halifax on Apr. 9. Follow the links for more details on these convoys; see also the report for SC 28. She had a cargo of diesel oil for Manchester and sailed in station 62. In June that same year we find her, together with the Norwegian Facto, Ila, Inger Elisabeth, Sirehei, and Torborg, in Convoy OB 337, which left Liverpool on June 20-1941 and dispersed on the 28th, Buccinum arriving Aruba independently on July 13. See the external link provided within the above table for more on this convoy.

A. Hague has also included her in Convoy SL 83 the following month (departed Freetown Aug. 5-1941). M. Holdoway, the webmaster of a website covering the SL convoys, based on original documents, has not listed her in this convoy (his doc may be incomplete?) - again, ref. links in the above table. The final destination of this convoy was Liverpool, but Buccinum headed to St. Vincent, Cape Verdes, and from there on to Capetown.

Skipping now to March-1944, when she made a voyage from Port Said to Augusta in Convoy MKS 43*, and arrived Augusta on March 16. The Norwegian Belpareil, Egerø, Ledaal, Måkefjell, Norholm, Selvik, Slemmestad and Sneland I are also listed in this convoy, some were bound for the U.K., others had other destinations. At the beginning of the following month we find Buccinum in Convoy KMS 45*, which had left Gibraltar on March 27-1944, but Buccinum joined from Augusta and was bound for Port Said, where the convoy arrived on Apr. 6. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Europe, Facto, Hjalmar Wessel, and Roald Amundsen. In July that year she made a voyage from Alexandria to Augusta with Convoy MKS 55*, which had originated in Port Said on July 8 (arrived Gibraltar July 20) and also included Falkefjell, Gallia, President de Vogue, and Thorshavn. For info, this convoy later joined up with Convoy SL 164 on July 21, the combined convoy then proceeding to the U.K., but as already mentioned, Buccinum was bound for Augusta, where she arrived on July 14. (MKS 43, mentioned above, also later joined up with an SL convoy - SL 152, then sailed to the U.K. as SL 152/MKS 43. The KMS convoys usually started out from the U.K. as combined OS/KMS convoys, which then split up off Gibraltar - see the first external link below for further explanations on the combined convoys).

In Aug.-1944 Buccinum is listed in Convoy MKS 58*, together with Egda, Facto, and Lido. This convoy departed Port Said on Aug. 7-1944 and arrived Gibraltar on Aug. 17 (then joined up with SL 167, the combined convoy proceeding to the U.K.), but Buccinum's destination was Bizerta, where she arrived on Aug. 14. Later that year she made a voyage from Alexandria to Malta in Convoy MKS 66*, which had originated in Port Said on Oct. 26 (arrived Gibraltar Nov. 6, joined up with SL 175 Nov. 8 and sailed as a combined convoy to the U.K.). Buccinum, however, had left Alexandria on Oct. 27 and arrived Malta on Nov. 1, leaving Malta again on Nov 7, and joined Convoy KMS 67* in order to travel to Port Said, where she arrived on Nov. 12. Galatea, Hjalmar Wessel, Nordnes, and Viggo Hansteen are also listed in this convoy. (KMS 67 had originally started out in the U.K. as the combined Convoy OS 93/KMS 67 which split up off Gibraltar).

POST WAR:

Became Greek Theodora in 1947, owned (as per Rolf Skiold's message on my Ship Forum) by S. Elefteriades & G. Pappas, Piraeus (Mediterranean Shipping Agency). Another posting to my forum by Arild Engelsen adds that she ran aground on the north side of Marmara Island on Jan. 23-1955, voyage Odessa-Pireus with cargo of oil. Total loss, broken up on the spot. His source: Skipet 1/1997, & Skipet 2/1980.

Related external links:
OS/KMS convoys and SL/MKS convoys.

1 who died on board - This man, Steward Karl Oskar Olsen from Arendal died at sea on Aug. 26-1941 following illness; commemorated at the Stavern Memorial.

Back to Buccinum on the "Ships starting with B" page.

This company later had another Buccinum post war. This ship sailed as Nueva Granada during the war.