D/S Harald Torsvik
Updated July 14-2009

To Harald Torsvik on the "Ships starting with H" page.

Some Convoy Voyages:

For information on voyages made prior to and 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 Febr.-1945, I have Harald Torsvik in the Halifax portion of the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 337, carrying a general cargo for Cherbourg, where she arrived on Febr. 22 - see Page 1 of the archive documents. The Norwegian Laurits Swenson served as Commodore Ship. Harald Torsvik returned across the Atlantic the following month with the westbound Convoy ON 288, together with Villanger, Viggo Hansteen, Tanafjord, Slemmestad, G. C. Brøvig, Dageid, Polartank and Heranger (according to "Nortraships flåte", Høyanger also took part, but A. Hague has instead included this ship in the next convoy). ON 288 departed Southend on March 2 and arrived New York on March 19. The Norwegian commodore, R. G. Bruusgaard was in the British Port Fremantle. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section, in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all ON convoys.

On Apr. 8, she joined Convoy HX 349 from New York and arrived Liverpool on the 23rd. This convoy, for which John Bakke served as Commodore Vessel, is not yet available among the HX convoys included in my Convoys section, but will also be added. For now, the ships sailing in it are are listed at ships in all HX convoys.

Page 2 shows her voyages to the summer of 1946.

For more information on the other Norwegian ships named here, please see the alphabet index at the end of the page, or go to the Master Ship Index.

POST WAR:

A story by Peder Kristoffer Langeland, (Norwegian text) states that Harald Torsvik went from Norfolk to Oslo with coal at some point of early 1946 (again, see also Page 2), and several Norwegian seamen were able to go home with her.
She was sold to Klaus Wiese Hansen, Bergen in Oct.-1946, renamed Grey County in 1947. Lost rudder in Jan.-1950 off Cape Race, voyage Antwerp-St. John, N. B., towed to Halifax. Renamed Aegean Sailor in 1951, Panamanian flag, Cia. Nav. del Egero S.A. (Lemos & Pateras Ltd., London managers). Converted to motor vessel at Newport, Mons. in 1960, 2 x 1 cyl. Mirrlees diesels, 3360 bhp, 12 knots, and came under the Greek flag as Kyramarouko, Marafecto Cia. Nav. S.A., Panama (same managers). Renamed Spalmatori in 1964, "Spalmatori" Cia. Nav. S. A., Panama (same managers, still under the Greek flag), Anastassios in 1966, Astro-Mareante Nav. S. A., Panama (same managers, Greek flag), Stymfalos in 1967, Stymfalos S. A., Panama (same managers, Greek flag). Broken up in Taiwan in 1968, having arrived Kaohsiung on Apr. 15-1968.

Related external links:
Liberty Ships - Unfortunately, the list no longer appears to be included at this site (unfortunate, because I have 100's of links to it from my Convoys section). If I remember correctly, that particular section was hosted by Peter Thompson, who has now moved to a different site, but I cannot find his list of Liberty Ships. I'll leave the link up for now until I can find out whether it's still available somewhere. I did find an identical page here, but as will be seen, the alphabetical links receive an error.

See also:
List of Liberty Ships by Hull No. - Includes info on the men and women for whom the ships were named (from Wikipedia).

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Liberty Ships in Peacetime, and their Contribution to World Shipping History" I. G. Steward - 1992, and misc.