Owner: A/S Lillemor
Manager: Th. Brøvig, Farsund
Tonnage: 1184 gt

Delivered in 1930 from Moss Værft & Dokk, Moss (51) as Nordbo to C. Henry Smith, Oslo, 1184 gt, 676 net, 1880 tdwt, 266.7' x 36.5' x 15.7', Tripple exp., 127 nhp. Sold in 1934 to A/S Lillemor (Th. Brøvig), Farsund and renamed Kirsten B.

Misc. War Voyages:

(More voyages will be added)

Kirsten B is mentioned among the ships in Convoy SC 70, which left Halifax for the U.K. on Febr. 16-1942 and had several Norwegian ships. She was loaded with Red Cross ambulances, trucks and automobiles, and destination is given as St. John's only (note that she's not included in the Advance Sailing Telegram for this convoy).

Together with the Norwegian Borgfred, Rio Branco (returned, later joined Convoy ON 102*) and Tore Jarl, she's listed in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 100*, which left Liverpool on June 2-1942. Kirsten B, however, is said to have joined from Halifax and was bound for Cape Cod Canal, where she arrived on June 19.

The external website that I've linked to at the end of this page also has her in the slow eastbound North Atlantic Convoy SC 105, which left New York on Oct. 11-1942 and arrived Liverpool on the 31st, but Kirsten B did not follow this convoy all the way to the U.K., being bound for St. John's only. Other Norwegian ships were Bonde, Don, Far, Herma, Norelg, Polarland, and Ramø. The following month we find her in the westbound Convoy ON 142*, originating in Liverpool on Oct. 30, arriving New York on Nov. 21; Kirsten B joined this convoy from Halifax. ON 142 also had several other Norwegian ships, namely Bestik (returned), Carmelfjell, Fjordheim, Jenny, Norvarg, Primo, Rio Verde, Sevilla, Solitaire, Temeraire and Vinland.

Kirsten B is said to have rounded off that year by sailing in Convoy SC 113, which departed New York on Dec. 12-1942 and arrived Liverpool on Jan. 2-1943, but she was again bound for St. John's only, general cargo, station 13. The Norwegian Askot, Hallanger, Henrik Ibsen, Lisbeth, Norvarg, O. B. Sørensen, Rio Verde, Ruth I, and Titanian are also listed. Again, see the external link provided below. Strangely, the same site lists Kirsten B as bound for St. John's in Convoy HX 219, leaving New York on Dec. 13-1942, but she could not have been in both SC 113 and HX 219, and as can be seen when following the link to my own page about HX 219, she's not mentioned there. It's possible she was scheduled for one or the other, only to return to port from one of them.

In Febr.-1943 she appears in Convoy SC 119, which left New York on Febr. 3-1943 and arrived Liverpool on the 22nd, but she was again bound for St. John's only. Askot, Boreas, Iris, Iron Baron, James Hawson, and Primo are also included - ref. external link below. Note also that by following the instructions provided at the link, information on several more voyages will come up. For instance, among many others, it looks like she made a couple of voyages to Cristobal, one in Aug.-1943 (Convoy GZ 40) and one in March-1944 (Convoy GZ 61).

The ON convoys mentioned here are available and will be added to individual pages in my Convoys section in due course, along with further details on each. In the meantime, please go to these convoys in the section listing ships in all ON convoys.

For more information on all the other Norwegian ships named on this page, please see the alphabet index below, or go to the Master Ship Index.

POST WAR:

Sold in 1951 to L. F. Mathies & Co., Hamburg, Germany and renamed L. F. Mathies. Sold for breaking up in 1958.

Related external links:
Misc. Convoys - Clicking on "Ship Search", typing "Kirsten B" as keyword will bring up several convoys that are not mentioned in my own text. Here are SC 105, SC 113, HX 219, and SC 119, all mentioned above.

Back to Kirsten B on the "Ships starting with K" page.

This company had lost a ship by the name Kirsten B on March 28-1930, after she had run ashore at Loshavn on a voyage from Brest and Rotterdam to Farsund. She broke in 2 and the after part sank. This ship was built in 1918 as War Birch, later Lake Charles and was 2013 gt. Became Kirsten B for Th. Brøvig in 1929. The website Historical Collections of the Great Lakes has quite a bit of details on this ship (type "Kirsten B" in the search field).