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Owner: Bulls Tankrederi A/S Delivered in 1930 from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle as Peik to Jens J. Salvesen, Oslo. Sold in 1934 to Bulls Tankrederi A/S (Gustav B. Bull), Sandefjord (note that according to the external website that I've linked to above, Anders Jahre had taken over the management of Bulls Tankrederi in 1938, following the death of G. B. Bull - "The World's Merchant Fleets 1939", R. W. Jordan gives manager as Hans H. Torgersen & Co. A/S, Tønsberg). According to R. W. Jordan, she was managed by British Tanker Co. Ltd, London during the war. I'm assuming this was following an agreement made between Nortraship and Britain in 1941, in which a certain amount of Nortraship's ships were to be chartered to the Ministry of War Transport. (This external page has some details on this agreement). Captain: Ole Westad Hay.
She made some independent voyages to Colombo, Fremantle and Melbourne at the end of 1941, beginning of 1942. She also made voyages without convoy to Abadan and Mombasa (Aug.-1942), Durban (Sept.-1942) Bahrein and Bandar Abbas (Oct.-1942), and continued sailing to places like Abadan, Aden, Port Sudan, Massawa, Bandar Abbas, Fremantle, Los Angeles, Brisbane, Sydney, N.S.W. etc. in 1943. Please follow the instructions provided at the external link at the end of this page for information on some of her 1942, 1943 and early 1944 voyages. She was scheduled for the New York-U.K. Convoy HX 292 in May-1944, but instead joined HX 294 on June 2, subsequently returning with the westbound Convoy ON 242*, which left Liverpool on June 25 and arrived New York on July 11. Peik's destination was Boston, where she arrived on July 10. (The Norwegian Ferncliff, Fernmoor, Fjordheim, Havkong, Marit II, Molda, Samuel Bakke, Skiensfjord, Solstad, Solsten, Stirlingville, Tercero, Thorshov, and Vera are also listed in ON 242). Later that month she can be found among the ships in the large Convoy HX 300; her destination is given as Londonderry, and she joined this convoy from Halifax, having left Halifax on July 19 (she arrived Londonderry on Aug. 2). Together with Gausdal, Glarona, Hardanger, Iron Baron, Lago, Norvarg, Olaf Bergh, Solstad, Vav, Villanger and Vinland, she subsequently returned across the Atlantic with the westbound Convoy ON 248S*, originating in Liverpool on Aug. 10-1944 (Peik joined from Londonderry the next day), arriving New York on the 27th. Already on Aug. 31 she shows up in Convoy HX 306, bound for Milford Haven and Portsmouth, and at the end of the following month she's listed in the westbound Convoy ONS 33*, together with Cetus, Chr. Th. Boe, Dagrun, Drammensfjord, Mui Hock, Para, Rena, Romulus, and Titanian. This convoy left Liverpool on Sept. 29-1944 and arrived Halifax on Oct. 14 - follow the links for more on the HX convoys mentioned here. The external site below has also included her in the slow, eastbound North Atlantic Convoy SC 168, which left Halifax on Febr. 25-1945 and arrived Liverpool on March 13. She was again in the company of several other Norwegian ships, namely Ferncliff, Iron Baron, Kristianiafjord, Lago, Marie Bakke, Torborg and Vera. With Dagrun, Norse Lady and Vera, she now returned with the westbound Convoy ONS 45*, departing Liverpool on March 22-1945, arriving Halifax on Apr. 11. Going back to the external website below, we find her in the eastbound Convoy SC 174, which left Halifax on Apr. 28-1945 and arrived Liverpool on May 14 - in other words, she celebrated VE Day while at sea, as did the Norwegian Danio, Gausdal, Hilda Knudsen, Norse Lady, Para, Stirlingville, Veni and Vera. Peik had station 72 of this convoy, and carried a cargo of sun fuel as well as 60 depth charges. Note that she served as escort oiler in most of these convoys.
Renamed Jalna in 1952 (Anders Jahre). This external page has a lovely picture of the ship when named Jalna - The site also has pictures and information on several other Anders Jahre ships; here's a list, and here's the main page. According to this site, Jalna was extensively rebuilt at Kieler Howaldtswerke in 1953, adding that she was laid up at Tranga in 1961, before being broken up in Grimstad, Norway. Related external link: Back to Peik on the "Ships starting with P" page. Other ships by this name: Norway had lost a ship by this name to WW I, built 1896, 1168 gt (H. & J. N. Jacobsen) - torpedoed and sunk by UC-3 in the North Sea on July 5-1915. Another Peik, 701 gt, built in Porsgrunn as Regulus in 1910, was torpedoed and sunk on Apr. 21-1917 by UC-44, voyage Newcastle, U.K.-Arendal, Norway, general cargo - no casualties. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, E-mails from Roger W. Jordan, and misc., including the external websites that I've linked to above.
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