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M/T Solitaire To Solitaire on the "Ships starting with S" page. Manager: The Texas Company (Norway) A/S, Oslo. This company was controlled by The Texas Co., US, and its ships managed by Haakon Chr. Mathiesen, Oslo. Delivered from Texas Shipbuilding Co., Maine (14) as Solitaire on Apr. 3-1920 to the Texas Steamship Co. Inc., New York. 3160 gt, 1844 net, 4750 tdwt, 315.4' x 43.7' x 27.4', two 6 cyl. 4T single acting DM (McIntosh & Seymour Corp., Auburn, New York), 1260 bhp. Transferred in 1929 to The Texas Company, Wilmington, Delaware. Sold in May-1933 to The Texas Company (Norway) A/S, Oslo.
Solitaire was scheduled for the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 18 and Convoy SC 19 in Jan.-1941 but did not sail. She also cancelled from Convoy SC 20, but eventually got away with SC 21 on Jan. 31. In Apr. that year we find her in Convoy SC 29, cargo of lub. oil for Manchester, station 64. Solitaire later joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 12, which left Liverpool on Sept. 1-1941. At the end of Oct. she was scheduled for the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 52, but instead joined Convoy SC 53 on Nov. 4. In Febr.-1942 she's listed among the ships in Convoy SC 69, bound for Sunderland, station 32 (having cancelled from the previous convoy SC 68), and in May that year she can be found in Convoy SC 83 from Halifax (cancelled from SC 82), sailing in the company of several other Norwegian ships. In the middle of July she shows up in Convoy SC 92, bound for Manchester. In Jan.-1943 she's listed in station 82 of the westbound Convoy ON 160. This convoy had originated in Liverpool (for New York) on Jan. 11, but it looks like Solitaire joined from Halifax on Febr. 1, having initially sailed from the U.K. with the earlier Convoy ON 158 on Jan. 2. Towards the end of the following month she was scheduled to return to the U.K. with Convoy SC 121 (in which Bonneville and several others were sunk), but did not sail.
Sold for breaking up in 1950. Back to Solitaire on the "Ships starting with S" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Roger W. Jordan - and misc.
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