D/S Gulhaug
Updated Sept. 27-2011

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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.

Gulhaug, with general cargo for Hull, is listed in the original Advance sailing Telegram for Convoy HN 20 from Norway to the U.K. in March-1940. According to A. Hague, she arrived her destination, via Methil and Tyne, on March 31. When Norway was invaded on Apr. 9, she was in Sunderland - see Page 1.

In June that same year, she shows up in Convoy OA 169, which left Southend on June 17. She was only bound for Southampton, where she arrived on June 18. The convoy was composed of 2 parts, OA 169(1) and OA 169(2), Gulhaug being in station 61 of Part 2, which also had other Norwegian ships (see the external links at the end of this page and within the above record). She's also listed in Convoy OA 178, which departed Southend on July 3. This time, her destination was Portsmouth, and she arrived there on July 5. (This convoy was attacked by aircraft, and several ships sunk or damaged). The following month, we find her, with destination Cork, in Convoy OA 196, departing Methil on Aug. 9. A. Hague has also included Akabahra, Fidelio, Isbjørn (579gt), Slemmestad, Sommerstad and Tai Yin in this convoy.

She later made a voyage across the North Atlantic, having started out from Clyde in Convoy OB 212, which had originated in Liverpool on Sept. 11-1940 and dispersed on the 16th. Gulhaug sailed from Clyde on the 11th and arrived Pictou, N.S. on Oct. 1, proceeding to Sydney, C.B. the next day (again, see Page 1) - A. Hague says she arrived there with engine defects. With lumber for Preston, she joined the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 11 on Nov. 9 (in which Bruse and Salonica were sunk - follow the links for details), but had to return to Sydney because of the bad weather(?). She's crossed out on the forms for SC 13 and SC 14, and is also crossed out on the original Advance Sailing Telegram for SC 15 on Dec. 8, though there's a note in connection with Convoy SC 16 (for which she was scheduled on Dec. 15), saying "Shown as sailed in SC 15, no advice as yet that she has returned". She did not sail all the way to the U.K. with SC 15; from Page 2 we learn that she arrived Halifax on Dec. 10, and according to A. Hague, she went there because of engine defects. As can be seen, she remained in Halifax for a long time; departure is given as May 21-1941, at which time she sailed to Sheet Harbour, and she did not go back to the U.K. again at all for the rest of the war. (She had also been scheduled for the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 29 on Apr. 19, cargo of lumber for Preston, but did not sail).

The rest of her 1941 voyages and some of her early 1942 voyages are shown on Page 2 above, while other 1942 voyages and early 1943 voyages are listed on Page 3. Convoy information for some of them can be found in the Voyage Record above.

Skipping now to March-1943, when we find her in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 167. This convoy had started out from Liverpool on Febr. 14 and arrived New York March 8, but note that Gulhaug was not present from the U.K.; she joined from Halifax at the beginning of March, and was bound for Boston, where she arrived March 8, and it looks like she did not leave again until Apr. 28 - see Page 4. ON 167, which also included Herbrand, Norvarg, Novasli and Orwell, will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section in due course, in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all ON convoys. The names of escorts are also available.

Gulhaug is listed among the ships in Convoy SC 125 from Halifax on March 31-1943, but this is a case of mistaken identity; according to Arnold Hague, this was the American Gulfhawk, not Gulhaug.

Her 1944 voyages also start on Page 4 and continue on Page 5 and Page 6. The latter document also shows some of her 1945 voyages, while the rest are listed on Page 7 and Page 8 (to Apr.-1946). Again, convoy info can be found in the table above.

POST WAR:

Renamed Sisto in 1946. Laid up in Haugesund on Sept. 11-1952. Sold to Brødrene Anda, Stavanger in March-1954 for breaking up.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Våre gamle skip" by Leif M. Bjørkelund and E. H. Kongshavn, and misc.