Manager: Nortraship
Tonnage: 7176 gt

Built as Thomas F. Bayard by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc., Baltimore, MD (2139), launched on May 24-1943, delivered May 31. One of 10 (11?) ships added to Nortraship's register in 1943, on bareboat charter from the United States War Shipping Administration. Edvard Grieg was taken over in Baltimore on the day of delivery, May 31. See my page "Ship Statistics and Misc." under "Gains 1943" for a list of the others.

Captein: Jørgen Jacobsen.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2

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

Voyage Record From June-1943 to Oct.-1945:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1943	June 3	Baltimore	New York City	June 4	Independent	–
	June 16	New York City	Gitmo	June 22	NG 368	Convoy available at NG convoys (external link)
	June 22	Gitmo	Trinidad	June 29	GAT 70	Convoy available at GAT convoys (external link)
	July 3	Trinidad	Rio	July 24	TJ 1	Convoy available at TJ convoys (external link)
	Aug. 1	Rio	Santos	Aug. 2	Independent	–
	Aug. 7	Santos	Montevideo	Aug. 12	Independent	–
	Aug. 16	Montevideo	Buenos Aires	Aug. 17	Independent	–
	Aug. 26	Buenos Aires	Valparaiso	Sept. 8	Independent	–
	Sept. 8	Valparaiso	Balboa	Sept. 18	Independent	–
	Sept. 20	Cristobal	Key West	Sept. 24	Independent	–
	Sept. 27	Key West	New York City	Oct. 3	KN 267	Convoy available at KN convoys (external link)
	Oct. 25	New York City	Gitmo	Nov. 1	NG 394	Convoy available at NG convoys (external link)
	Nov. 1	Gitmo	Trinidad	Nov. 7	GAT 96	Convoy available at GAT convoys (external link)
	Nov. 12	Trinidad	Rio	Dec. 1	TJ 14	Convoy available at TJ convoys (external link)
	Dec. 12	Rio	Santos	Dec. 13	Independent	–
	Dec. 17	Santos	Montevideo	Dec. 21	Independent	–
1944	Jan. 10	Montevideo	Rio	Jan. 15	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	Rio	Trinidad	Febr. 1	JT 20	Convoy available at JT convoys (external link)
	Febr. 3	Trinidad	Gitmo	Febr. 8	TAG 113	Convoy available at TAG convoys (external link)
	Febr. 8	Gitmo	New York City	Febr. 15	GN 113	Convoy available at GN convoys (external link)
	March 12	New York City	Gitmo	March 19	NG 422	Convoy available at NG convoys (external link)
	March 19	Gitmo	Trinidad	March 25	GAT 124	Convoy available at GAT convoys (external link)
	March 31	Trinidad	Rio	Apr. 20	TJ 28	Convoy available at TJ convoys (external link)
	May 2	Rio	Santos	May 3	Independent	–
	May 10	Santos	Montevideo	May 14	Independent	–
	May 18	Montevideo	Buenos Aires	May 19	Independent	–
	May 30	Buenos Aires	Rio	June 6	Independent	–
	June 15	Rio	Trinidad	June 29	JT 35	Convoy available at JT convoys (external link)
	July 2	Trinidad	–	–	TAG 143	A. Hague says: Detached independent off Gitmo July 7 (see also Page 1) Convoy available at TAG convoys (external link)
	July 7	Detached from TAG 143	New York City	July 12	Independent	–
	Aug. 9	New York City	Gitmo	Aug. 16	NG 452	Convoy available at NG convoys (external link)
	Aug. 16	Gitmo	Trinidad	Aug. 22	GAT 154	Convoy available at GAT convoys (external link)
	Aug. 28	Trinidad	Rio	Sept. 15	TJ 43	Convoy available at TJ convoys (external link)
	Sept. 26	Rio	Santos	Sept. 27	Independent	–
	Oct. 11	Santos	Rio	Oct. 12	Independent	–
	Oct. 13	Rio	Trinidad	Oct. 28	JT 47	Convoy available at JT convoys (external link)
	Oct. 29	Trinidad	New York City	Nov. 8	Independent	–
	Dec. 12	New York City	–	–	NG 477	A. Hague says: Detached approx. Dec. 16 Convoy available at NG convoys (external link)
	Dec. 16	Detached from NG 477	Trinidad	Dec. 22	Independent	–
	Dec. 23	Trinidad	Rio	Jan. 5-1945	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 17	Rio	Santos	Jan. 18	Independent	–
	Febr. 8	Santos	Trinidad	Febr. 22	Independent	–
	Febr. 23	Trinidad	New York City	March 4	Independent	–
	Apr. 3	New York City	Trinidad	Apr. 13	Independent	–
	Apr. 14	Trinidad	Rio	Apr. 28	Independent	–
	May 14	Rio	Santos	May 15	Independent	–
	June 4	Santos	Montevideo	–	Independent	–
	June 8	Montevideo	Fray Bentos	–	Independent	Page 2 gives arrival June 9
	June 16	Fray Bentos	Montevideo	June 16	Independent	–
	June 18	Montevideo	Santos	June 22	Independent	–
	July 4	Santos	Pernambuco	July 10	Independent	–
	July 11	Pernambuco	Bergen	Aug. 1	Independent	A. Hague says: Notional sailing date (agrees w/Page 2) Via Kirkwall
	Aug. 16	Bergen	Oslo	Aug. 17	Independent	–
	Sept. 1	Oslo	Methil	Sept. 3	Independent	–
	Sept. 5	Methil	Delaware Capes	Sept. 17	Independent	–
	Oct. 5	Delaware Capes	Rouen	Oct. 25	Independent	Subsequent voyages, Page 2

Notes:

A few days after delivery in Baltimore, she travelled to New York, with arrival June 4-1943. Later that month, she joined Convoy NG 368 (with Fernglen and Kirsten B), departing New York on June 16, arriving Guantanamo on the 22nd, proceeding that same day in Convoy GAT 70 (again with Fernglen in company, as well as B. P. Newton), and arrived Trinidad on June 29. At the beginning of the following month she served as Commodore ship for Convoy TJ 1, in which B. P. Newton was sunk, follow the link for details (Fernglen and Litiopa are also listed). TJ 1 had left Trinidad on July 3 and arrived Rio de Janeiro, Edvard Grieg's destination at the time, on the 24th - all these convoys are available via the external links provided within the Voyage Record above. Page 1 shows her subsequent voyages, with convoy details in the table above.

In the summer of 1945, she got to go home to Norway, arriving Bergen (from Pernambuco, via Kirkwall) on Aug. 1 - see Page 2 (lists voyages to July-1946).

POST WAR:

Sold in 1946 to the Norwegian Government for Andreas Stray, Farsund, then to A/S Sobral (Øivind Lorentzen, Oslo) in 1950. To Socony Vacuum Oil Co. in 1951, converted at Kiel to liquified gas tanker in 1952 and came under the Panamanian flag (owned by Brilliant Transport Co., Panama, also, Øivind Lorentzen Inc., Oslo & New York), 7468 gt, then Liberian flag in 1952 under the name Ultragas Sao Paulo (L.P.G. Carriers Inc, New York). Renamed Mundogas Sao Paulo in 1961 and back to Norwegian flag for A/S Gasskib (Øivind Lorentzen). Converted at Santos to floating store from Febr. 27-1969 for use as permanent, non-propelled storage tank depot. From 1970 - Mundogas Storage Inc. (Source at the bottom of this page - compare with the information found on this external page).

Related external links:
Liberty Ships - Alphabetical list where Thomas F. Bayard was included on the T list. Unfortunately, as can be seen, the list no longer appears to be included at this site (unfortunate, because I have 100's of links to it from my Convoys section). If I remember correctly, that particular section was hosted by Peter Thompson, who has now moved to a different site, but I cannot find his list of Liberty Ships. I'll leave the link up for now until I can find out whether it's still available somewhere else. I did find an identical page here, but as will be seen, the alphabetical links receive an error.

But see also:
List of Liberty Ships - Includes info on the men (and women) for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia - Thomas F. Bayard is listed on this page, and here is information on Thomas F. Bayard himself).