Manager: Nortraship
Tonnage: 10 296 gt

Built as Averysboro by Sun Shipbuilding Co., Chester PA, (431) delivered in Jan.-1945 - taken over by Nortraship in Chester on Jan. 20-1945. One of 5 new ships transferred to Nortraship that year. (The others were T/T Hammerfest, D/S Lektor Garbo, D/S Carl Oftedal, T/T Honningsvaag, listed on this site under their respective letters of the alphabet).

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 Jan.-1945 to Oct.-1945:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1945	Jan. 23	Philadelphia	Baytown	Jan. 30	Independent	–
	Jan. 31	Baytown	Corpus Christi	–	Independent	See also Page 1
	Febr. 11	New York City	Swansea	Febr. 23	CU 58	–
	Febr. 25	Swansea	New York City	March 9	UC 58A	Again, see also Page 1 Convoy will be added. See ships in UC convoys
	March 15	New York City	Liverpool	March 27	CU 62	–
	March 31	Liverpool	Philadelphia	Apr. 12	UC 62A	For Philadelphia. Convoy will be added. See link above
	Apr. 14	Philadelphia	New York City	Apr. 15	Independent	–
	Apr. 16	New York City	Southend	Apr. 28	CU 66	–
	May 1	Southend	New York City	May 12	UC 66A	Convoy will be added. See link above (also, Page 1).
	May 15	New York City	Southend	May 26	CU 70	–
	May 28	Southend	New York City	June 6	Independent	–
	June 13	New York City	Port Said	June 28	Independent	Left Port Said same day (Page 1).
	June 29	Suez	Aden	July 3	Independent	–
	July 3	Aden	Colombo	July 9	Independent	–
	July 9	Colombo	Chittagong	July 13	Independent	–
	July 20	Chittagong	Calcutta	July 21	Independent	–
	Aug. 12	Calcutta	Bahrein	Aug. 22	Independent	See also Page 1
	Aug. 24	Bahrein	Melbourne	Sept. 13	Independent	–
	Sept. 16	Melbourne	Balboa	Oct. 8	Independent	–
	Oct. 14	Cristobal	Covenas	Oct. 14	Independent	–
	Oct. 16	Covenas	Philadelphia	Oct. 21	Independent	Subsequent voyages, Page 2

Some Convoy 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. Follow the convoy links provided for more details.

As mentioned further up on this page, Finnmark was delivered in Jan.-1945 and taken over by Nortraship in Chester on Jan. 20. Already on Febr. 11, we find her in the fast NewYork-U.K. Convoy CU 58, together with the Norwegian Hegra and Washington Express. Finnmarks's destination is given as Swansea, and she arrived there on Febr. 23 - see Page 1. Hegra and Finnmark subsequently joined the westbound Convoy UC 58A*, originating in Liverpool on Febr. 26, arriving New York on March 9, and they are both listed (as are Karsten Wang, Margrethe Bakke and Martin Bakke) in the eastbound Convoy CU 62 about a week later, arriving Liverpool on March 27. Finnmark (w/Karsten Wang and Hegra) now returned in Convoy UC 62A*, which left Liverpool on March 31 and arrived New York on Apr. 11; her destination is given as Philadelphia, where she arrived Apr. 12. Just a few days later, she headed back to the U.K. in Convoy CU 66 (departure New York Apr. 16, arrival Liverpool Apr. 28, Finnmark went to Thameshaven), again with Hegra and Karsten Wang in company, all 3 returning to the U.S. again in Convoy UC 66A*, which left Liverpool on May 2 and arrived New York on the 13th. Finnmark and Hegra then joined Convoy CU 70 in order to go back to the U.K. - departure New York May 15, arrival Liverpool May 25.

For information on her subsequent voyages, please see Page 1 and Page 2, as well as A. Hague's Voyage Record above.

* The UC convoys mentioned here will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course; in the meantime, the ships sailing in them are named on the page listing ships in all UC convoys.

POST WAR:

According to the external site below, she was renamed Sirip Jask in 1961.

Related external link:
The T2 Tanker page - I found Finnmark at this website, under Sun Shipbuilding, listed as Averysboro.