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D/S Lysaker IV To Lysaker IV on the "Ships starting with L" page. Manager: Ludvig Lorentzen, Oslo Built in 1924 by Furness Shipbuilding, Haverton Hill (123) as Vale of Mowbray for Vale S.S. Co., Middlesbrough (until 1935). Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Lysaker IV, in ballast for Dunstan, is listed as sailing in Convoy HN 15 from Norway to the U.K. in Febr.-1940 (she had initially been in the previous convoy, HN 14, but put back), returning to Norway in the middle of March with Convoy ON 20. At the end of that month she's mentioned in the Advance Sailing Telegram for Convoy HN 23B, however, it looks like she was among the ships returning to port, because she's also listed in Convoy HN 24 at the beginning of the following month. This convoy arrived Methil Roads on Apr. 7, that is, just 2 days before the German invasion of Norway, and hence this ship ended up in allied service. Follow the links for more info, several Norwegian ships took part. Lysaker IV is named among the ships in Convoy OA 167, which left Southend on June 13-1940 and dispersed on the 16th. She had a cargo of coal and was bound for Rochefort at the time. Other Norwegian ships included in this convoy, which is available via the external link provided at the end of this page, are Heina, Troja and Tungsha. (Svint was also scheduled, but did not sail). According to Page 1 of the archive documents, she made a voyage from Milford Haven to Sydney, C.B. in July that year; I have no convoy information for this voyage; perhaps she had sailed independently(?). She was scheduled to return with the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 2 at the end of the following month (in which Gro was sunk), but instead joined the next convoy on Sept. 2, SC 3, cargo of lumber for Sunderland. The Norwegian Lotos was sunk. Lysaker IV later joined Convoy OB 232, which originated in Liverpool on Oct. 21-1940 and dispersed on the 26th (again, ref. external link below). She arrived Sydney, C.B. on Nov. 3, having started out from Milford Haven on Oct. 20, then headed back across the Atlantic on Nov. 22 with the slow Convoy SC 13, cargo of pit props for Hull. She was otherwise mostly in service around the U.K. and also to Iceland. In May-1942 I have her in Convoy RU 24 from Reykjavik, bound for Tyne with vehicles and stores. In July that year we find her in Convoy RU 32; cargo of fish meal for Liverpool, where she arrived on July 22 (according to Page 6). Lyra and Jan Mayen are also listed in this convoy. A couple of months later she rescued the 27 survivors from the British Empire Bell. This ship had been torpedoed and sunk by U-442 on Sept. 25-1942, Convoy UR 42 from the U.K. to Iceland (external link). Information on further convoy voyages (to March-1943) can be found by following the instructions provided at the first external link below. According to Page 17 of the archive documents, she finally got to go home to Norway in Oct.-1945.
Renamed Chicago in 1953 (Norwegian), Italian Gennaro Ievoly in 1954, Villanova in 1958 (still Italian). Broken up at La Spezia in Febr.-1966. Related external links: See also this chronological Riversea International - I haven't linked directly to the info on Lysaker IV, because this site only keeps the pages up for a brief period of time. Back to Lysaker IV on the "Ships starting with L" page.
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