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M/S Narvik To Narvik on the "Ships starting with N" page. Manager: Nortraship Delivered in Jan.-1944 from Pennsylvania Shipyard Inc., Beaumont, Texas as Cape River to United States War Shipping Administration, 5241 gt, 8000 tdwt, 396.8' x 60.1' x 24.9', 2x 6 cyl. 2T Nordberg 5000 ihp, 13 knots. 1 of 10 ships transferred to the Norwegian flag in 1944, renamed Narvik. See my page "Ship Statistics & Misc." under "gains" 1944 for a list of all 10. Narvik was taken over at Beaumont, Texas, on Jan. 22. This ship had a female Canadian radio operator named Esther Chrichton. Other Norwegian ships also had female Canadian radio operators, a list of their names and ships can be found on my page about M/S Mosdale.
According to the external website that I've linked to at the end of this page, she took part, together with the Norwegian Rita, in Convoy HK 189, which departed Galveston Bar on Febr. 4-1944 and arrived Key West on the 8th. That same day we find her, again with Rita, in Convoy KG 687, which arrived Guantanamo on Febr. 11, and 2 days later she appears, with the Norwegian Britamsea and Fana, in Convoy GZ 59, departing Guantanamo on Febr. 13, arriving Cristobal on the 17th. In the spring of 1945, she's listed in Convoy MKS 93*, departing Gibraltar on Apr. 5-1945, arriving Liverpool on the 14th. The following month she joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 300*, departing Liverpool on May 2, arriving New York May 18. The Norwegian Carl Oftedal, Fosna, Gefion, Heranger, John Bakke, and Viggo Hansteen are also listed.
Sold to Westfal-Larsen in Nov.-1946 and renamed Siranger. She had a Canadian female radio operator, Olive Carroll, about whom a book has been written, called "Deep Sea Sparks", ISBN 1-895590-05-1 (Cordillera Publishing Co. Box 46, 8415 Granville St. Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6P 4Z9). See the external link below. Sold in July-1959 to Montemar S.A. Commercial & Maritima, Montevideo, renamed Nortemar. Sold in March-1978 for breaking up at Karachi. Related external links: Misc. convoys - By clicking on "Ship Search", using "Narvik" as keyword, several convoys will come up. Please be aware, however, that there was also an escort vessel by this name, which will also show up in the search results. Also, there was a Swedish Narvik - look for the ship with (Nor) behind the name. (Note that the info on her being in Convoy HN 14 from Norway in Febr.-1940 is incorrect, for obvious reasons; she had not been delivered yet - here's my own page about HN 14. The same is true for some of the other convoys she appears in before 1944 at the site, for instance, BX 28B, MKS 25, WN 306 and DN 27). Here are HK 189, KG 687, and GZ 59, all mentioned in my text. Back to Narvik on the "Ships starting with N" page. Other ships by this name: Another Norwegian Narvik is listed in the Homefleet section. Germany had a steamship named Narvik, formerly the Dutch Stad Leiden which had been taken over and renamed on completion in 1941. Struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on June 17-1943. There was also a Swedish Narvik, bombed and sunk by British aircraft near the Frisian Islands on Apr. 29-1943. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, and misc., including the external website that I've linked to above.
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