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

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

Voyage Record From Dec.-1941 to Aug.-1945:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each (where the "Convoy" column is left blank, it means that convoy is not known).

Errors may exist, and several voyages are missing.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1941	Dec. 14	Sydney, N.S.W.	Brisbane	Dec. 17	Independent	A. Hague says: Previously traded D.E.I/Australia/N Zealand. Earlier voyages: Page 1 & Page 2
1942	Jan. 2	Brisbane	Noumea	Jan. 6	Independent	–
	Jan. 10	Noumea	Suva	Jan. 12	Independent	–
	Jan. 14	Suva	Brisbane	Jan. 21	Independent	Notional sailing date
	Febr. 8	Brisbane	Suva	Febr. 16	Independent	–
	Febr. 25	Suva	Noumea	Febr. 28	Independent	–
	Apr. 3	Noumea	Sydney, N.S.W.	Apr. 10	Independent	–
	Apr. 20	Sydney, N.S.W.	Los Angeles	May 25	Independent	–
	June 7	Los Angeles	Wellington	July 6	Independent	–
	July 8	Wellington	Auckland	July 11	Independent	–
	July 20	Auckland	Suva	July 25	Independent	–
	July 27	Suva	Los Angeles	Aug. 17	Independent	–
	Aug. 26	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Aug. 26	Independent	Put back with defects
	Sept. 4	Los Angeles	Sydney, N.S.W.	Oct. 3	Independent	–
	Oct. 11	Sydney, N.S.W.	Brisbane	Oct. 14	GP 17/1	Convoy available via this page (external link)
	Oct. 19	Brisbane	Los Angeles	Nov. 18	Independent	–
	Dec. 21	Los Angeles	Sydney, N.S.W.	Jan. 19-1943	Independent	–
1943	Jan. 23	Sydney, N.S.W.	–	–	CO 65	Dispersed Jan. 26. Convoy available at CO convoys (external link)
	Jan. 26	Dispersed from CO 65	Abadan	Febr. 25	Independent	–
	March 1	Abadan	Bandar Abbas	–	Independent	–
	March 3	Bandar Abbas	Karachi	March 7	PB 29	For Karachi. Convoy available via this page (external link)
	March 13	Karachi	Bandar Abbas	March 17	BP 72	Convoy available via link above
	March 17	Bandar Abbas	Abadan	March 18	Independent	–
	March 22	Abadan	Bandar Abbas	–	Independent	–
	March 29	Bandar Abbas	Aden	Apr. 6	PA 31	Convoy available via link above
	Apr. 6	Aden	Suez	Apr. 12	Independent	Left Suez Apr. 14 (Page 3).
	Apr. 20	Port Said	Haifa	Apr. 21	Independent	–
	Apr. 30	Haifa	Port Said	May 1	Independent	–
	May 1	Port Said	Alexandria	May 2	Independent	–
	May 5	Alexandria	Port Said	May 6	Independent	–
	May 6	Port Said	Haifa	May 7	Independent	–
	May 12	Haifa	Port Said	May 13	Independent	–
	May 15	Port Said	Port Said	–	Independent	Voyage data unknown
	May 21	Port Said	Alexandria	May 22	Independent	–
	May 27	Alexandria	Port Said	May 28	Independent	–
	May 29	Port Said	Haifa	May 30	Independent	–
	June 2	Haifa	Port Said	June 3	Independent	–
	June 14	Port Said	Haifa	June 15	Independent	–
	June 19	Haifa	Port Said	June 20	Independent	–
	June 20	Port Said	Alexandria	June 21	Independent	–
	June 24	Alexandria	Malta	June 30	MKS 16	–
	July 2	Malta	Tripoli, Libya	July 3	–	–
	July 16	Tripoli, Libya	Port Said	July 23	MES 36	Convoy available via this page (external link)
	July 26	Port Said	Alexandria	July 27	Independent	–
	July 29	Alexandria	Malta	Aug. 3*	GUS 11	To Malta. Convoy available at GUS convoys (external link) *Compare w/Page 4
	Aug. 9	Malta	Port Said	Aug. 15	GTX 5	From Malta Aug. 7? (Page 4). Convoy available via this page (external link)
	Aug. 27	Port Said	Jaffa*	Aug. 28	Independent	*See Page 4 above
	Aug. 31	Haifa	Tripoli, Syria	Sept. 1	Independent	Via Beirut (see Page 4)
	Sept. 2	Tripoli, Syria	Haifa	Sept. 3	Independent	–
	Sept. 6	Haifa	Port Said	Sept. 7	Independent	–
	Sept. 11	Port Said	Haifa	Sept. 12	Independent	–
	Sept. 20	Haifa	Alexandria	Sept. 22	Independent	–
	Oct. 3	Alexandria	Port Said	Oct. 4	Independent	–
	Oct. 7	Port Said	Haifa	Oct. 8	Independent	–
	Oct. 10	Haifa	Tripoli, Syria	Oct. 11	Independent	–
	Oct. 13	Tripoli, Syria	Haifa	Oct. 13	Independent	–
	Oct. 15	Haifa	Alexandria	Oct. 17	Independent	–
	Oct. 19	Alexandria	Malta	Oct. 24	GUS 19	Alexandria to Malta. Convoy available at GUS convoys (external link)
	Oct. 26	Malta	Augusta	Oct. 26	VN 6	Convoy available at VN convoys (external link)
	Nov. 5	Augusta	Port Said	Nov. 11	UGS 21	Augusta to Port Said. Convoy available at UGS convoys (external link)
	Nov. 13	Port Said	Haifa	Nov. 14	Independent	A. Hague says: Port Said/Haifa service to July 5-1944 (compare w/Page 4 & Page 5)
1944	March 29	Alexandria	Port Said	March 30	Independent	Earlier 1944 voyages: Page 4 & Page 5 above. On to Haifa - missing voyages, Page 5.
	July 8	Port Said	Augusta	July 14	MKS 55	For Augusta. Convoy will be added. See ships in MKS convoys
	July 16	Augusta	Taranto	July 17	AH 55	Convoy available at AH convoys (external link)
	July 22	Taranto	Augusta	July 24	HA 56	Convoy available at HA convoys (external link)
	July 30	Augusta	Marseilles	–	–	–
	Oct. 27	Marseilles	Toulon	Oct. 27	–	–
	Oct. 29	Toulon	Naples	Oct. 31	–	Later to Augutsa, back to Naples (Page 5)
	Nov. 18	Naples	Oran	Nov. 21	–	–
	Nov. 24	Oran	Casablanca	Nov. 25	GUS 59	A. Hague says: Oran to Casablanca after straggling. Convoy available at GUS convoys (external link)
	Dec. 4	Casablanca	Baltimore	Dec. 22	GUS 60	Convoy available at link above
1945	May 27	Baltimore	Philadelphia	May 28	Independent	–
	June 2	Philadelphia	Devonport	June 15	Independent	See also Page 6
	June 18	Devonport	Port Arthur	July 10	Independent	–
	July 11	Devonport*	Boston	July 21	Independent	*Should be Port Arthur
	July 25	Boston	Puerto la Cruz	Aug. 2	Independent	–
	Aug. 3	Puerto la Cruz	Baltimore	Aug. 11	Independent	Subsequent voyages, Page 6

Some Voyages:

For information on voyages made in between those discussed here, please see the documents received from the National Archives of Norway and A. Hague's Voyage Record above.

According to an article written by someone who was an able seaman on this ship, Falkefjell 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, she was en route from Sumatra to Australia, and when orders came to go to the nearest allied port (see my page about 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 entered 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. After this charter period was over she went to San Pedro to pick up a cargo for New Zealand, then back again to California. Page 1 shows her 1940 voyages, Page 2 has her 1941 and some 1942 voyages, while the rest are listed on Page 3. The latter page also lists some of her 1943 voyages; convoy information for some of them can be found in the Voyage Record above.

In June-1943, she's listed in Convoy MKS 16 - scroll down to the second table on that page. This convoy left Alexandria on June 24 and arrived Tripoli, Libya on the 29th; Falkefjell arrived Malta on the 30th, according to A. Hague. Going back to Page 3, we see that she left Malta again on July 2 and arrived Tripoli the next day. Further 1943 convoys can be found within the table above, see also Page 4.

Skipping now to July-1944, when we find her, together with the Norwegian Buccinum, Gallia, President de Vogue and Thorshavn, in Convoy MKS 55, which originated in Port Said on July 8 and arrived Gibraltar on the 20th; Falkefjell, however, was bound for Augusta, where she arrived on the 14th, proceeding to Taranto 2 days later - her voyages in this period are shown on Page 5. 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.-1944 she's included, along with Britannia, Elise, Norholm and Sønnavind, in Convoy GUS 59, which departed Oran on Nov. 24 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 arrived Baltimore that day. Other Norwegian ships in this convoy were Elise (which had also straggled from GUS 59 and gone into Casablanca), Fernplant, Pan Scandia and Viggo Hansteen. Ref. external links provided within the table above for more on these 2 convoys. It now looks like she remained in Baltimore for a long time - Page 5 gives departure as May 28-1945, the reason for this long stay is not known.

As will be seen when going to Page 6, she got to go home to Norway in Dec.-1945.

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.