D/S Knoll
Updated Nov. 17-2008

To Knoll on the "Ships starting with K" page.


This shows the ship when she had the name Fager.
Source: Bjørn Milde's postcard collection.
See also the external websites that I've linked to at the end of this page for more pictures.

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14

Some Convoy Voyages & Misc.:

(More convoy information will be added).

Knoll is listed among the ships in Convoy HN 9A from Norway to the U.K. in Jan.-1940. As will be seen when clicking on the link, several other Norwegian ships also took part.

At the end of July that same year we find her, with destination Sydney, C.B., in Convoy OB 192, which left Liverpool on July 31 and dispersed Aug. 4 - ref. external link provided at the end of this page. According to Page 1 of the documents received from the Norwegian archives, Knoll arrived Sydney, C.B. on Aug. 14, having started out from Milford Haven on July 31. She was scheduled to return to the U.K. with the slow Convoy SC 4 from Sydney, C.B. on Sept. 10-1940, but instead joined the next convoy on the 18th, SC 5, cargo of lumber for Great Yarmouth.

She was subsequently mostly in service transporting coal, iron and food supplies around the U.K. On March 26-1941, she was attacked by 2 aircraft, 8 n. miles west of Lundy Island, damaged and beached at Lundy Island, temporarily repaired, then taken in tow to Swansea on the 29th. (According to Page 2 of the archive documents, she had left Falmouth on March 25, arrived Swansea March 29, left again on Apr. 26).

That summer she was one of many Norwegian ships in the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 1, originating in Liverpool on July 26-1941, dispersed Aug. 9. Her destination is given as St. Stephen, where she arrived on Aug. 14, having started out from Milford Haven on July 25 (see Page 4). On Aug. 30, she's listed, with a cargo of lumber, in station 76 of the eastbound Convoy SC 42, in which Stargard and several others were sunk - follow the link for details on this convoy battle and the names of ships sunk (incl. the cruising order of the convoy).

Knoll had no form of armament at the time of the attack in March-1941 described above, but on Nov. 28-1941 she was better able to defend herself (equipped with 3 Marlin guns) when she was under attack again between St. Ives and Trevose Head. The British S/S Macbrae was attacked at the same time and between them they managed to hit the attacking aircraft, which subsequently withdrew.

Skipping now to Oct.-1943, when she headed to Gibraltar - see Page 11 of the archive documents. To make this voyage she had joined Convoy KX 11, which left Milford Haven on Oct. 22 and arrived Gibraltar Nov. 1. Knoll proceeded to Algiers on the 10th, with arrival there Nov. 13, having sailed in Convoy KMS 31. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named in the section listing ships in all KMS convoys. She now remained in that part of the world for quite some time, as will be seen from the archive document already mentioned, as well as Page 12 and Page 13. Convoy information for some of these voyages will be added.

She was damaged again at Bari on Apr. 9-1945 when the ammunition ship S/S Charles Henderson (Liberty Ship, built 1943) blew up during the unloading of cargo. Knoll had arrived Bari from Ancona on Apr. 2 with Convoy HA 25 (ref. link below). The harbour was badly damaged and several people injured or killed. 3 other ammunition ships were set ablaze but further explosions were avoided. One of the ships set on fire was Knoll, which had a large cargo of bombs, and her holds had to be filled with water. This thread on my Ship Forum has some further details. See also my page about Far.

The rest of her voyages are listed on Page 14; as can be seen, she got to go home to Norway in Nov.-1945.

POST WAR:

(According to the last external website below).

Sold in 1947 to H. Gjerpen & Co, Oslo, same name. Sold in 1956 to Ole T. Flakke, Kristiansund N, same name. Re-engined in 1958 (steam to diesel). From 1960 owners were Kristiansund N. & Nordmøre Forretningsbank A/S, Kristiansund N (this was a bank). Sold in 1961 and renamed Ramsnes. Ran aground on Sept. 21-1971 and stranded at Drogsholmen. Refloated and towed to a yard in Haugesund for repairs, but condemned. Sold in 1972 for scrapping by Machinehandel en Scheepssloperij de Koophandel Nieuw Lekkerland, Rotterdam, arriving in tow on March 15.

Related external links:
Convoy OB 192 - The site also has KX 11 and HA 25.

Post war pictures - Pictures of this ship when named Ramsnes (the site says she was owned by J. Hetland & K. Nilsen when she had that name). Tonnage for Ramsnes is given as 1143 gt.

Another picture is available on
this page - Caption says: 4/3/1969 arriving Imperial Paper Mills Wharf, Gravesend with cargo of wood-pulp.

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The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, and misc. (ref. My sources).