Owner: D/S A/S Storfjeld
Manager: Harald Grieg Martens, Bergen
Tonnage: 1355 gt, 2200 tdwt.
Call Sign: LDVC

Built by C. van der Giessen & Zonen's Scheepswerven NV, Krimpen, Netherlands in 1921.

Captain: Haakon Næss

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

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each (some listings are incomplete).

Errors may exist, and some voyages are missing.

According to A. Hague, Fanefjeld was in the U.K.-Norway Convoy ON 9 at the end of Jan.-1940. A month later, he has her in Convoy HN 14 from Norway to the U.K., and in March he has included her in Convoy ON 21 to Norway (see also Svinta, Tora Elise and Erling Lindøe). When war broke out in Norway on Apr. 9, she was on her way from Bergen to Methil Roads, having left Bergen on Apr. 7, according to Page 1. For this voyage, A Hague has listed her in Convoy HN 25. The archive document gives her final destination as Rochester, where she arrived on Apr. 18. As can be seen, she made a voyage to France the following month, and that summer she made several voyages between Tyne and London.

Together with Ravnefjell, she later joined Convoy OA 201, departing Methil on Aug. 18-1940, dispersed on the 22nd, Fanefjeld arriving Sydney, C.B. independently on Sept. 3. This convoy is available at the external link provided within the Voyage Record above. Having made a voyage to Chatham, N.B., she returned to Sydney, C.B. and with a cargo of lumber, she was scheduled to return to the U.K. with Convoy SC 7 which lost so many ships in Oct.-1940 (including Snefjeld of the same company - follow the links for details; see also HMS Leith's report), but Fanefjeld did not sail. She was also cancelled from the next convoy, SC 8, but eventually got away with Convoy SC 9 on Oct. 24.

In Febr.-1941, she's listed as bound for Seville in Convoy OG 52*, which originated in Liverpool on Febr. 5 and had Gibraltar as its final destination. Fanefjeld arrived Seville on Febr. 24, having sailed from Oban on the 6th - according to Page 2, she had called at Bonanza on Febr. 21. Together with Rimfakse, she headed back to the U.K. again on March 15 with Convoy HG 56 from Gibraltar. The original Advance Sailing Telegram for this convoy gives her destination as Middlesbrough, station 42, cargo of pyrites and oranges. Via Oban and Methil Roads, she arrived Middlesbrough on Apr. 8. Later that month, we find her in Convoy OG 60*, originating in Liverpool on Apr. 26. Fanefjeld again joined from Oban, arriving Seville on May 11. Henrik Ibsen, Inga I, Marit, Nueva Granada, Snar, Spinanger and Varangberg are also named. Some of them, including Fanefjeld, returned to the U.K. on May 25 in Convoy HG 63 from Gibraltar. Her destination on that occasion is given as Aberdeen, cargo of iron pyrites, station 22, sailing between Henrik Ibsen and Varangberg. Fanefjeld arrived Aberdeen on June 13, via Oban.

She later made another voyage to Sydney, C.B., where she arrived on July 22-1941, having left Loch Ewe on July 8 in Convoy OB 343, which was dispersed July 21. Arosa, Evviva, Ferncourt (bombed - follow link for info), Grado, Henrik Ibsen, Idefjord, Måkefjell, Nesttun, Slemdal, Spurt, Star, Suderholm and Taborfjell are also listed. With a cargo of lumber, Fanefjeld headed back to the U.K. on Aug. 24 with the slow Convoy SC 41, together with Akabahra, Astra, Audun, Balduin, Blink, Carrier (returned), Einvik (sunk - follow link for details), Evviva, Fagersten, Grado, Gudrun, Heien, Hestmanden, Hildur I, Ledaal, Leka, Lom, Marga, Nesttun, Orania (returned), Reiaas, Siak and Spes (several of which joined from Iceland). This convoy is not yet available among the SC convoys included on my website, but will be added - see ships in all SC convoys. Having stopped at Loch Ewe and Methil, Fanefjeld arrived Hull on Sept. 16.

The following month, she's listed as bound for Iceland in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 27. She arrived Reykjavik on Oct. 23, having sailed from Loch Ewe on the 18th. Her voyages in this period are shown on Page 3. Askeladden, Harpefjell, Heina, Inger Elisabeth, Rolf Jarl and Torfinn Jarl are also named in this convoy, which originated in Liverpool on Oct. 16 and dispersed Nov. 2. This convoy will also be added to an individual page in my Convoys section, but for now, see the section listing ships in all ON convoys.

A. Hague mentions a collision with the British Saintfield on Jan. 18-1942. I have no further info on that, but according to the archive document mentioned above, she later arrived Aberdeen for repairs on Jan. 26.

Along with Fidelio, she subsequently made another voyage to Iceland with Convoy UR 12 (left Loch Ewe on Febr. 8, arrived Reykjavik on the 13th), then returned to the U.K. on Febr. 24 with Convoy RU 13, bound for Glasgow, where she arrived March 2 (again, see Page 3). Later that month, she's listed in Convoy UR 17 to Reykjavik, with arrival March 31, having left Loch Ewe March 27 - according to the archive document, she was bound for North Russia. (Links to UR convoys have been provided in the table above).

* The OG convoys will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in them (and escorts) are named on the page listing ships in all OG convoys.