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D/S Inviken
Updated Sept. 18-2009

To Inviken on the "Ships starting with I" page.

Manager: Wallem & Co., Bergen
Tonnage:
4171 gt

Built in Germany in 1925. Previous names: Elaine L-D until 1935, Lu Hsing until 1937.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5


Please compare the above voyages with Arnold Hague's Voyage Record below.

Voyage Record
From Oct.-1940 to Nov.-1945:

(Received from Don Kindell - His source: The late Arnold Hague's database).

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

Errors may exist, and as can be seen, the record is incomplete.

Departure From To Arrival Convoy Remarks
1940 Oct. 19 Aden Suez Oct. 26 BN 7 Aden to Suez.
Previously traded Indian Ocean/Pacific
(see Page 1).
Convoy available at BN 7
(external link)
Nov. 19 Suez Aden Nov. 26 BS 9 Then Traded Inidan Ocean & Pacific
(again, see Page 1 above).
Convoy available at BS 9
(external link)
1941 Dec. 18 Sourabaya Colombo Jan. 1-1942 Independent Missing 1941 voyages:
Page 1 & Page 2
1942 Jan. 3 Colombo Karachi Jan. 11 Independent
Jan. 12 Karachi Bushire Jan. 22 Independent
Jan. 30 Bushire Karachi Febr. 3 Independent
March 19 Karachi Aden March 27 Independent
March 27 Aden Suez Apr. 5 Independent
Apr. 8 Port Said Alexandria Apr. 9 Independent
Apr. 30 Alexandria Port Said May 2 Independent
May 4 Port Said Beirut May 5 Independent
May 12 Beirut Tripoli, Syria May 12 Independent
May 17 Tripoli, Syria Beirut May 18 Independent
May 19 Beirut Port Said May 21 Independent
May 27 Port Said Alexandria May 28 Independent
June 10 Alexandria Port Said Independent
June 19 Port Said Beirut June 21 Independent
June 27 Beirut Mersin June 28 Independent
July 6 Mersin Iskenderun July 7 Independent
July 12 Iskenderun Port Said July 15 Independent
July 20 Suez Port Sudan July 25 Independent
Aug. 5 Port Sudan Massawa Aug. 7 Independent
Sept. 2 Massawa Port Sudan Sept. 4 Independent
Sept. 13 Port Sudan Colombo Sept. 27 Independent Indian Ocean/Red Sea/Levant to Apr. 4.-1943
See also Page 3
1943 Apr. 4 Mombasa Durban Apr. 13 Independent
Apr. 17 Durban Lourenço Marques Apr. 19 DN 34 Convoy available at DN 34
(external link)
Apr. 30 Lourenço Marques Mombasa May 8 Independent E Africa/Red Sea/Levant to Oct. 25-1943
Again, see Page 3 as well as Page 4
Oct. 25 Durban Aden Nov. 18 Independent
Dec. 3 Aden Aden Dec. 4 AKD 8 Put back.
Convoy available at AKD 8
(external link)
Dec. 13 Aden Suez Dec. 22 Independent Passed Suez Canal, at Port Said to June-1944
1944 July 6 Safaga Aden July 13 Independent See also Page 4
At Aden to Aug. 8-1944
Aug. 8 Aden Mombasa Aug. 26 Independent
Aug. 28 Mombasa Durban Sept. 12 Independent
Oct. 20 Durban Durban Oct. 20 Independent Put back with defects
Oct. 25 Durban Mombasa Nov. 6 Independent
Nov. 14 Mombasa Durban Nov. 24 Independent
Dec. 24 Durban Mombasa Jan. 5-1945 Independent
1945 Jan. 16 Mombasa Beira Jan. 23 Independent
Jan. 30 Beira Aden Febr. 16 Independent
Febr. 18 Aden Suez Febr. 26 Independent
Febr. 27 Port Said Alexandria March 1 Independent
March 11 Alexandria Bone March 18 Independent
March 21 Bone Gibraltar March 25 Independent
March 26 Gibraltar Gibraltar March 28 MKS 91G Returned.
Convoy will be added.
See ships in MKS convoys
March 31 Gibraltar Workington Apr. 13* MKS 92G *Arrived Apr. 8 - See Page 4.
Convoy will be added.
See link above
Apr. 20 Workington Belfast Lough Apr. 21 Independent
Apr. 22 Belfast Lough Clyde Apr. 22 Independent
Oct. 17 Clyde Baltimore Nov. 13 Independent Further voyages, Page 4 & Page 5


As will be seen when going to Page 1 of the archive documents, Inviken was at Rangoon when war broke out in Norway on Apr. 9-1940, having arrived there from Hong Kong on Apr. 6. Some of her 1941 voyages are also shown on that document, and continue on Page 2, which also lists some 1942 voyages, the rest of which are on Page 3. Some 1943 voyages are also shown on Page 3 as well as on Page 4, which also has her 1945 voyages.

In the spring of 1945, she's listed in Convoy MKS 92, which left Gibraltar on March 31 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 8 - Inviken arrived Workington that day. She had inititally started out in Convoy MKS 91, but returned to port. Both these convoys will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section, in the meantime, the ships sailing in them are named in the section listing ships in all MKS convoys.

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