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Tonnage: 10 448 gt

Delivered from The Kaiser Co., Swan Island, Portland (73) in July-1944. Launched as Trailblazer. 1 of 10 ships transferred to the Norwegian flag in 1944, renamed Kaptein Worsøe. See my page "Ship Statistics & Misc." under "gains" 1944 for a list of all 10. Kaptein Worsøe was taken over at Portland on July 8.

The Canadian Alice House and Ola McLean were radio operators on this ship. See also this Guestbook message. A list of names of other female, Canadian radio operators can be found on my page about M/S Mosdale.

1st mate was Rasmus Astrup, who had previously taken part i Operation Performance with B. P. Newton; follow the links for details. He had also served on Solør. See also this external page.

Captain: From June-1944 until June-1945, Knut O. Bringedal - see also O. A. Knudsen.

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 July-1944 to Dec.-1945:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1944	July 12	Portland, Oreg	Los Angeles	July 14	Independent	See also Page 1
	July 18	Los Angeles	Sydney, N.S.W.	Aug. 7	Independent	–
	Aug. 13	Sydney, N.S.W.	Langemak Bay	Aug. 18	Independent	–
	Aug. 23	Langemak Bay	Los Angeles	Sept. 10	Independent	–
	Sept. 13	Los Angeles	Langemak Bay	Oct. 2	Independent	–
	Oct. 5	Langemak Bay	Hollandia	Oct. 7	Independent	–
	Oct. 12	Hollandia	Manus	Oct. 14	Independent	–
	Oct. 16	Manus	Los Angeles	Nov. 1	Independent	–
	Nov. 9	Los Angeles	Langemak Bay	Nov. 27	Independent	–
	Nov. 28	Langemak Bay	Milne Bay	Dec. 1	Independent	Notional sailing date
	Dec. 6	Milne Bay	Los Angeles	Dec. 24	Independent	–
	Dec. 28	Los Angeles	Pearl Harbor	Jan. 4-1945	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 5	Pearl Harbor	Eniwetok	Jan. 13	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	Eniwetok	Kwajalein	Jan. 19	Independent	–
	Jan. 20	Kwajalein	Eniwetok	Jan. 21	Independent	–
	Jan. 21	Eniwetok	Majuro	Jan. 22	Independent	–
	Jan. 22	Majuro	Los Angeles	Febr. 4	Independent	–
	Febr. 7	Los Angeles	Sydney, N.S.W.	Febr. 26	Independent	–
	March 1	Sydney, N.S.W.	Melbourne	March 2	Independent	–
	March 4	Melbourne	Adelaide	March 5	Independent	–
	March 6	Adelaide	Fremantle	March 11	Independent	–
	March 15	Fremantle	Onslow	March 17	Independent	–
	March 18	Onslow	Bahrein	Apr. 1	Independent	–
	Apr. 2	Bahrein	Aden	Apr. 7	Independent
	Apr. 8	Aden	Suez	Apr. 12	Independent	On to Port Said, same day (Page 1).
	Apr. 13	Port Said	Augusta	Apr. 16	Independent	–
	Apr. 16	Augusta	Toulon	Apr. 18	Independent	–
	Apr. 23	Marseilles	Aruba	May 6	Independent	Via Gibraltar (Page 1)
	May 8	Aruba	Gitmo	May 9	Independent	–
	May 13	Gitmo	New York City	May 19	GN 205	Convoy available at GN 205 (external link)
	May 20	New York City	Cherbourg	May 30	CU 71	For Le Havre
	May 31	Cherbourg	New York City	–	Independent	–
	June 22	New York City	Houston	–	Independent	–
	July 3	Houston	Cristobal	July 7	Independent	–
	July 8	Balboa	Manus	Aug. 1	Independent	–
	Aug. 4	Manus	Manus*	Aug. 10	Independent	–
	Aug. 16	Manus*	Ulithi	Aug. 21	Independent	*Manila (Page 2).
	Aug. 22	Ulithi	Balboa	Sept. 14	Independent	–
	Sept. 16	Cristobal	Aruba	Sept. 18	Independent	–
	Sept. 19	Aruba	Cristobal	Sept. 22	Independent	–
	Sept. 23	Balboa	Pearl Harbor	Oct. 6	Independent	–
	Nov. 26	Pearl Harbor	Guam	–	Independent	–
	Dec. 12	Guam	Pearl Harbor	Dec. 22	Independent	Subsequent voyages, Page 2

Notes:

As mentioned, Kaptein Worsøe was taken over at Portland on July 8-1944. Already on the 12th she left Portland for Los Angeles, where she arrived July 14, continuing to Sydney on the 18th - see Page 1, which also shows some of her 1945 voyages.

She had been to Aruba in May-1945, travelling from there to Guantanamo Bay, and is subsequently listed, together with Slemmestad and Suderøy, in Convoy GN 205, which left Guantanamo on May 13 and arrived New York on the 19th - ref. external link provided in the Voyage Record above. The next day, she joined the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 71; her destination is given as Havre (Elisabeth Bakke, Mosdale and Trondanger are also listed, follow the link for more info). Kaptein Worsøe was back in the U.S. in June.

Page 2 of the archive documents shows her voyages up to and including June-1946 (as can be seen, she spent a long time at Pearl Harbor at the end of 1945).

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

POST WAR:

Returned to US in 1946 and renamed Trailblazer. Sold to France in 1948 and renamed Berry. Transferred to French Navy in 1961 on a long-term bareboat charter, refitted as a fleet replenishment ship. Returned to previous owners in March 1963. Sold that same year and renamed Hepta for voyage to shipbreakers, and arrived Hong Kong in June 1963 to be broken up. (This info received from R. W. Jordan - see also this external page).

Related external links:
The T2 Tanker page
T 2 tankers
Alphabetical list of T2 tankers