Manager: Nortraship
Tonnage: 10 297 gt

Built by Sun Shipbuilding Co., Chester, Pa (483), delivered in May-1945. Taken over in Chester on April 30-1945. One of 5 new ships transferred to Nortraship that year. The others were T/T Finnmark, D/S Lektor Garbo, D/S Carl Oftedal and T/T Honningsvaag, all included on this website - see this page.

This ship had 2 Canadian, female radio operators. One of them was Yvonne Demers (from May 1945 till Jan.-1946) and the other was Margaret Dixon. A list of names of other female, Canadian radio operators can be found on my page about M/S Mosdale.

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 May-1945 to Nov.-1945:

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1945	May 7	Lynn Haven Roads	–	–	NG 506	A. Hague says: From Lynn Haven Roads. Detached May 10. Convoy available at NG 506 (external link)
	May 10	Detached from NG 506	Curacao	May 13	Independent	–
	May 15	Curacao	New York City	May 20	Independent	–
	May 25	New York City	Southend	June 4	CU 72	–
	June 6	Southend	Houston	–	Independent	–
	June 23	Houston	Liverpool	July 6	Independent	Missing movements, Page 1
	July 10	Liverpool	Philadelphia	–	Independent	Hague says: Probably via West Indies oil port. Compare w/Page 1 above
	July 22	Philadelphia	Aruba	July 26	Independent	–
	July 28	Aruba	Cristobal	July 30	Independent	–
	July 31	Balboa	Leyte	–	Independent	–
	Aug. 31	Leyte	Eniwetok	Sept. 7	Independent	–
	Sept. 8	Eniwetok	Pearl Harbor	Sept. 17	Independent	–
	Sept. 18	Pearl Harbor	Balboa	Oct. 1	Independent	–
	Oct. 2	Cristobal	Houston	–	Independent	–
	Oct. 14	Houston	Antwerp	Oct. 29	Independent	–
	Oct. 31	Antwerp	New York City	Nov. 18	Independent	Subsequent voyages: Page 1 & Page 2

Some Convoy Voyages:

As mentioned above, Hammerfest was delivered in May-1945. Together with the Norwegian Notos and Ravnefjell, she's listed in Convoy NG 506, which left New York on May 6-1945 and arrived Guantanamo on the 13th (ref. external link provided within the above table). According to Page 1 of the archive documents, Hammerfest had started out in Philadelphia and was headed for Curacao, where she arrived on May 13, proceeding to New York on the 15th, with arrival May 20. A few days later we find her in the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 72, departing on May 25, arriving Liverpool on June 3; Hammerfest arrived Thameshaven on June 4. As will be seen when following the link, Karsten Wang and Kirkenes are also included.

Page 2 shows her voyages to June-1946.

POST WAR:

Later purchased by Johs. Hansens Tankrederi A/S, Oslo, named Polyglory in 1949, Union Glory in 1960.

Related external link:
The T2 Tanker page - I found Hammerfest at this website, under Sun Shipbuilding