M/T Nordanger

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Misc. War Voyages:

In service to Greece. The retreat of the British from Greece was planned for Apr. 24-1941, but continuous German air attacks created havoc and made the evacuations difficult. The captain of Nordanger reports that they witnessed air attacks without stop for 93 days while in service to Greece, though without being hit themselves. (The evacuation was finally completed June 1). The Norwegian ships M/S Belray, M/S Brattdal, M/T Pericles, M/T Egerø were also in this service, among several others (discussed under their respective letters of the alphabet).

Nordanger is listed among the ships in Convoy SC 148 from Halifax to the U.K. in Dec.-1943, but had to return to Halifax with engine defects. She was subsequently cancelled from the next convoys, SC 149 and SC 150, but shows up again in Convoy SC 151, leaving Halifax on Jan.14-1944, arriving Liverpool on the 31st. She must have gone back and forth across the Atlantic in this period, because a couple of months later, in March-1944, she sailed in Convoy SC 155 - follow the links for cruising orders for these convoys. SC 155 arrived Liverpool on March 29, and about a week later Nordanger joined the westbound Convoy ON 231 along with 14 other Norwegian ships, namely Bernhard, Ferncourt, Haakon Hauan, Spinanger, Østhav, Solstad, Idefjord, President de Vogue, Heranger, Kong Haakon VII, Thorsholm, Skaraas, Høyanger and Vav, all listed on this website. This convoy departed Liverpool on Apr. 7-1944, arriving New York on the 24th. Early in June that year she was scheduled for the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 294 but did not sail.

At the end of Jan.-1945 she shows up in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 166, bound for Mersey and Stanlow.

POST WAR:

Sold in July-1951 to Compania Maritima Panmar SA of Panama, Panama, and renamed San Salvador. Sold in 1959 to Brodospas, and sailed from Spezia on June 12-1959 for Split to be broken up.

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Other ships by this name: This company had previously had another Nordanger (steamship), built in Sunderland in 1896 as Norman Isles for A. N. Hansen, Copenhagen, 3456 gt. Later Wilh. Wilhelmsen Tønsberg 1896. Became Dutch Walcheren in 1909, then Nordanger in 1916. Disappeared on a voyage Newport News-Antwerp in Sept.-1919, having departed on Sept. 27 with a crew of 34. Another Nordanger was built for the company in Bergen in 1955. Sold in May-1968 to A/S Ivarans Rederi, Oslo, renamed Savannah. Sold in 1975 to Virnat Shipping Lines Pte., Singapore. Broken up in Spain in 1980. In July-1976 Westfal-Larsen received another Nordanger, 17 057 gt, built in Poland. This ship later sailed as Bow Selene for Skibs-A/S Storli, Bergen from 1990, renamed Ncc Madinah that same year. ("Damp - Dampskipets æra i Vestfold", Westfal-Larsen fleet list and misc.).

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, Westfal-Larsen fleet list and misc.