D/S Gudvin
Updated Sept. 25-2011

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Some Convoy Voyages:

For information on voyages made in between those mentioned 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 on them; several Norwegian ships took part.

In service U.K.-Iceland with coal early in the war?

As will be seen when going to Page 1 of the archive documents, Gudvin arrived Houston on Apr. 9-1940, the day of the German invasion of Norway.

With a cargo of wood pulp for Preston, she was scheduled for the slow Convoy SC 4 from Sydney, C.B. to the U.K. on Sept. 10, but instead joined the next convoy on Sept. 18, SC 5. According to the archive document mentioned above, she arrived Preston on Oct. 5. She returned across the Atlantic shortly thereafter, arriving Sydney, C.B. on Oct. 30 (A. Hague says she made this voyage independently), and on Nov. 13, we find her in Convoy SC 12, cargo of pit props for West Hartlepool, where she arrived Dec. 13. She now appears to have spent quite a long time there; departure date is given as Jan. 26-1941.

The following month, she joined Convoy OG 53*, together with Fana and Rimfakse. The convoy originated in Liverpool on Febr. 15-1941 and arrived Gibraltar March 1; Gudvin, however, was bound for Takoradi, arriving there on March 11, having detached from the convoy on Febr. 26. She continued to Lagos that same day, with arrival March 13 and from there, she later proceeded to Freetown (again, see Page 1). She's now mentioned in Convoy SL 70 (see external link at the end of this page), which left Freetown on March 29 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 23, but she probably did not sail (or returned to port), as she's also listed in the next convoy on Apr. 8, SL 71. Gudvin, carrying a cargo of groundnuts, arrived Oban on May 3 - see Page 2. Both these convoys had other Norwegian ships, namely Andrea Brøvig, Egda, Lisbeth (probably did not sail), Para, Ravnefjell (probably did not sail) and Storanger in SL 70 (Dagfred was scheduled, but did not sail), and Dagfred, Lisbeth, Lise, Ravnefjell and Thorshov in SL 71.

Abount a month later, Gudvin can be found in Convoy OG 64*, which originated in Liverpool on June 4 and arrived Gibraltar on the 18th; Gudvin arrived Seville on June 19, having left the convoy the day before. Kos VII, Kos X, Kos XI, Kos XII, Lisbeth, Loke, Norse King and Ranella are also named in this convoy. With a cargo of iron ore, Gudvin returned to the U.K. again in Convoy HG 67 from Gibraltar on July 8, and arrived Workington on July 23. This convoy is not available among the HG convoys included in my own Convoys section, but I've linked directly to A. Hague's listing for it within the above record - Orwell and Trolla are also listed. Gudvin now headed to Sydney, C.B. again, joining Convoy ON 4. She had station 74 of the convoy, which was dispersed on Aug. 18, Gudvin arriving her destination on Aug. 23, continuing to Halifax that same day. With Ada, Barbro (sunk, follow the link for details), Bollsta, Borgfred, Carrier, Cetus, Hjalmar Wessel, Iron Baron, Lago, Marita, Rolf Jarl, Sirehei, Sneland I, South Africa and Spero, she returned to the U.K. in Convoy SC 44*, departing Sydney, C.B. on Sept. 11, arriving Liverpool Sept. 30; Gudvin stopped at Loch Ewe on the 27th (Page 2).

Later that year, she's listed in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 39*, but only went as far as Reykjavik (convoy originated in Liverpool Nov. 21; Gudvin sailed from Loch Ewe, Nov. 23 and arrived Iceland on the 27th). Grado, Ledaal (returned) and Thorshavn (joined from Iceland) are also named in this convoy.

Skipping now to Apr. 3-1942, when I have her in Convoy RU 17 from Reykjavik to the U.K., and on Aug. 31 that same year she shows up in Convoy RU 38, vehicles and stores for Glasgow, where she arrived on Sept. 7. Her 1942 voyages start on Page 3 and continue on Page 4, while convoy info for some of them can be found in the Voyage Record above.

In July-1943, she's listed among the ships in the Liverpool-Gibraltar Convoy KMS 22, together with Belnor and Tanafjord. Gudvin was bound for Bone with coal - note that she's also included in the second table on my page for this convoy. She arrived Bone on Aug. 13, having sailed from Milford Haven on July 27. The rest of her 1943 voyages are shown on Page 5; see also Page 6 and Page 7 (as can be seen, she went home to Norway in Aug.-1945).

* Convoy ON 39 and the 2 OG convoys mentioned here will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, along with further details on each. In the meantime, the ships sailing in them (and escorts) are named in the section listing ships in all ON convoys and on the page for ships in all OG convoys. The entire SC series will also be updated and completed, but for now, the names of other ships in Convoy SC 44 can be found at ships in all SC convoys.

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

POST WAR:

Sold by D/S A/S Gudrun (should this be D/S A/S Gudvin?) in 1960 to Brødrene Anda, Stavanger, where she arrived on March 19-1960 for breaking up.

Related external link:
SL convoys - Gudvin is mentioned in SL 70 as well as in SL 71.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, E-mail from Roger W. Jordan - and misc. other.