Manager: Nortraship
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, July 8.

Misc. War Voyages:

More voyages will be added.

Kaptein Worsøe 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 13-1945 and arrived New York on the 19th - ref. external link provided below. The next day she joined the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 71 in order to travel to Havre (Elisabeth Bakke, Mosdale and Trondanger are also listed).

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

For more information on all the other Norwegian ships mentioned on this page, 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 in 1963 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).

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

Convoy GN 205