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M/T Langanger To Langanger on the "Ships starting with L" page.
Manager: Westfal-Larsen & Co. A/S, Bergen Delivered in Sept.-1930 (July 25?) from Robert Duncan & Co. Ltd., Port Glasgow (397). Related items on this website: From Nov.-1939 until June 21-1941, Adolf K. Lines was 1st engineer on Langanger. His next ship is given as Bosphorus, so he may have been among those who were transferred to this ship when Langanger was requisitioned (see text below). He later served on Duala (1943) and Gabon (1944). According to a French visitor to my website Langanger was seized off Tunisia by French patrol boats on Apr. 10-1940 (the day after the German invasion of Norway) and ordered to Bizerta. Released a few days later.
Langanger was one of the 26 Norwegian ships interned in Vichy controlled North and West Africa 1940-1942, see the link to Interned Ships above for the names of all 26. Roger W. Jordan has told me that Langanger was taken over by Vichy authorities at Oran on June 21-1941*, then by Kriegsmarine in Marseilles on Nov. 24-1942 and operated by Mittelmeer Reederei GmbH, Hamburg under the name Toni III. According to the posting to My Ship Forum that I've linked to above, she was at La Spezia on Nov. 29 that year, departed from Augusta on May 23-1943, journeyed Bastia-Civitavecchia Aug. 20/21-1943. She was scuttled on Aug. 17-1944 at Port de Bouc (while under attack of allied aircraft?). "Nortraships flåte" adds she was declared a total loss in Apr.-1945.
I've found a very interesting article in the book "Tilbakeblikk" which states that after Langanger had been requisitioned in Bone in the summer of 1941 her crew was sent to Algiers and placed on Bosphorus. According to "Sjømann, lang vakt" Bosphorus took on board 21 from M/T Regina and 22 from M/T Langanger on July 21-1941. They later took part in several escapes from Bosphorus, follow the links for more details. Additional tidbit: The Germans very often tried to get their hands on Norwegian ships by forcing the owners to sign an agreement for charter. As in the case of some of the ships that were in Sweden, a few owners signed, under threat that if they didn't the consequences would be harsh; concentration camps in Germany, lost property and repercussions towards their families. Even some of those who did sign were arrested and sent to camps, the reason being that they had let it be known that the signature had been given under threat. The manager of Langanger was also called in in March-1942 and was asked to sign an agreement to let his ship be chartered by the German Navy. He refused and was sent to Grini, a well known concentration camp in Norway, and later to Sachsenhausen in Germany until the fall of 1943. (Lauritz Pettersen, "Hjemmeflåten - Mellom venn og fiende". Tonnage for Langanger is given as 14 150 gt). Some Crew Members:
I looked these men up in Kristian Ottosen's "Nordmenn i fangenskap" (Norwegians in imprisonment) and found the following details: Nils Jæger is listed as Nils Jaeger, "arrested" (in this case meaning interned) on June 20-1940, transferred to Bona on June 21-1941, released Nov. 16-1942.
Raised in Febr. 1947 (the above mentioned message on Forum gives 1950), sold to Roger de Perrot & A Bourquin, Neuenburg, repaired at Marseilles. Entered service as Neuchatel on Febr. 9-1950 under Swiss flag. Ownership transferred to Roger de Perrot, Neuchatel in 1954. Sold to Hugo Stinnes Transozean Schiffahrts GmbH, Hamburg on Oct. 1-1954 and renamed Transozean. Renamed Transozean Hugo Stinnes in 1955 (German flag). Sold in July-1961 to Spanish breakers. Arrived in tow of tugs Humber and Poolzee at Bilbao on July 26-1961 to be broken up (info from R. W. Jordan and company fleet list). Related external links: Back to Langanger on the "Ships starting with L" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Norwegian Maritime Museum, Volume I, and sources named within the text above - ref. My Sources
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