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

Built in Germany in 1925. Previous names: Elaine L-D until 1935, Lu Hsing until 1937.
According to this external page, she was delivered from Nüscke & Co. A/G., Stettin in Sept.-1925 as Merkator to Viktor Schuppe, Stettin. From 1926, sailed as Elaine L-D for Louis Dreyfus & Co., Dunkirk. From 1934, Chung Hsing Coal Mining Co. Ltd. (Young Wong), Shanghai, no name change. Renamed Lu Hsing in 1935. Renamed Inviken for Wallem & Co. A/S (H. J. Wallem), Bergen in 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:

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	A. Hague says: Previously traded Indian Ocean/Pacific (see Page 1). Aden to Suez. Convoy available at BN 7 (external link)
	Nov. 19	Suez	Aden	Nov. 26	BS 9	A. Hague says: 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	Arrived Port Said Apr. 7 (Page 2).
	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	On to Suez July 19 (Page 3).
	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	A. Hague says: Indian Ocean/Red Sea/Levant to Apr. 4.-1943 See also Page 3.
1943	Apr. 4	Mombasa	Durban	Apr. 13	Independent	Earlier 1943 voyages, Page 3
	Apr. 17	Durban	Lourenço Marques	Apr. 19	DN 34	Convoy available at DN 34 (external link)
	Apr. 30	Lourenço Marques	Mombasa	May 8	Independent	A. Hague says: E Africa/Red Sea/Levant to Oct. 25-1943 Missing voyages: Page 3 & 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	On to Port Said same day (Page 4). A. Hague says: Passed Suez Canal, at Port Said to June-1944
1944	July 6	Safaga	Aden	July 13	Independent	Again, see Page 4 A. Hague says: 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	On to Port Said same day (Page 4).
	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	*Page 4 gives arrival Apr. 8 (missing movements?). 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	Subsequent voyages: Page 4 & Page 5

Notes:

As will be seen when going to the archive documents, Inviken occasionally spent a long time in port.

From Page 1, we learn that she 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 this document, and continue on Page 2, which also lists some 1942 voyages, while the rest can be found on Page 3. The latter page also has some 1943 voyages, with more on Page 4. Convoy info for some of them is available in the Voyage Record above. Her 1944 and 1945 voyages are also listed on Page 4. It'll be noticed, that she got to go to Drammen, Norway at the end of that year, but arrival date is not given. See also Page 5.

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, cargo of iron ore, arrived Workington that day. She had inititally started out in Convoy MKS 91 on March 26, 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.

POST WAR:

Again from this external page

1947: Chung Hsing Steamship Co. Ltd., Shanghai, renamed Lu Hsing.
1950: Wallem & Co. Ltd., Panama, renamed Storbay.
1952: Chung Hsing S.S. Co. Ltd., Shanghai, renamed Tai Shan.
1958: Deleted from Lloyds, not shown in Casualty Returns.