Owner: A/S Falkefjell
Manager: Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo
Tonnage: 7927 gt

Built by Kockums Mekaniska Verksteds AB, Malmö, Sweden in 1931.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6

Some Convoy Voyages:

(More convoy information will be added).

According to an article written by someone who was an able seaman on this ship she was near Malta when the war started in 1939. She had a cargo of oil from Curaçao for Piræus and Alexandria. For the next 6 months she was in service between India, China and the East Indies as well as having a couple of voyages to the Persian Gulf. When Norway was invaded on Apr. 9-1940 Falkefjell was en route from Sumatra to Australia, and when orders came to go to the nearest allied port (see my page Nortraship) she proceeded to Brisbane, then on to Sydney to unload. She then started to carry oil between the East Indies and Sydney, but after the Japanese entry in the war she was chartered for about 6 months by the Australian Navy and used for supplying the Australian and American troop transports in the Pacific, most often near Noumea, New Caledonia, but also at Suva on the Fiji Islands (she made some independent voyages to Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, Suva and Los Angeles in the course of 1942). After this charter period was over she went to San Pedro for a cargo for New Zealand, then back again to California. See also pages 1, 2 and 3 above.

At the end of June-1943, Falkefjell shows up in Convoy MKS 16 - scroll down to the second table on that page (convoy left Alexandria on June 24 and arrived Tripoli on the 29th).

Together with the Norwegian Buccinum, Gallia, President de Vogue, and Thorshavn, she's also listed in Convoy MKS 55, which originated in Port Said on July 8-1944 and arrived Gibraltar on the 20th; Falkefjell, however, was bound for Augusta, where she arrived on the 14th - see Page 5 of the archive documents. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it (and escorts) are named in the section listing ships in all MKS convoys.

In Nov. that same year she's listed, together with Britannia, Elise, Norholm, and Sønnavind, in Convoy GUS 59, which departed Oran on Nov. 24-1944 and had Hampton Roads as its final destination. Falkefjell was also bound for the U.S. on this occasion, but straggled and went to Casablanca, where she arrived on Nov. 26, later joining the next GUS convoy from there on Dec. 4, GUS 60, which had originated in Oran on Dec. 3 and arrived Hampton Roads on Dec. 22; Falkefjell was bound for Baltimore, with arrival there that same day. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Elise (which had also straggled from UGS 59 and gone into Casablanca), Fernplant, Pan Scandia and Viggo Hansteen. Ref. external links below for more on these 2 convoys.

In 1945 she made voyages to Philadelphia, Port Arthur, Boston and Puerto la Cruz, among other ports - again, see the documents received from the National Archives of Norway for further details. As will be seen when going to Page 6, she got to go home to Norway in Dec.-1945. That page also has voyage information for part of 1946.

For more information on all the other Norwegian ships mentioned on this page, please see the alphabet index below, or go to the Master Ship Index.

POST WAR:

Sold in 1957 to Malmö Tankrederi (C. E. von Seth, Malmö, Sweden, managers) and renamed Uarda. Sold in Oct.-1959 to breakers at Hong Kong, where she arrived on Dec. 5-1959.

Related external link:
Misc Convoys - By clicking on "Ship Search", using "Falkefjell" as keyword, several convoys that are not mentioned in my text will come up. Here are GUS 59 and GUS 60, both mentioned above.