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D/S Sollund To Sollund on the "Ships starting with S" page. Manager: Thomas Haaland, Haugesund Delivered in Apr.-1908 from Akers mek. Verksted, Christiania (Oslo) as Agnella to C. Mathisen e.a., Bergen. Tonnage given as 940 gt, 557 net, 1250 tdwt, 221.6' x 32.2' x 11.9', Triple exp. (by yard). From June-1917 Rederi-A/S Vestlandske Lloyd (Brødrene Olsen), Stavanger, then D/S A/S Solvang from Apr.-1921, renamed Sollund. Sold in Jan.-1922 to D/S A/S John Knudsen (John Aug. Knudsen & Chr. Haaland), Haugesund (purchased together with Burstad - later Solstad of Haugesund, then Apolo of Chile 1923 - and Solvang; not listed on my site, as this ship sank in 1926 following a collision with the American D/S Vacum). Captain: Olaf Lervik. Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Sollund is listed in Convoy HN 5 from Norway to the U.K. in Dec.-1939. She's also included in Convoy HN 10 from Norway in Febr.-1940, bound for Preston with pulp. She returned to Norway at the end of that month with Convoy ON 16, and towards the end of March-1940 (just a couple of weeks before Norway was invaded) she joined Convoy HN 21, cargo of talc for Manchester. Follow the links for more info; several Norwegian ships took part in all these convoys. As can be seen from the images received from the Norwegian archives, Sollund was mostly in service around the U.K. during the war. She was in Liverpool at the beginning of May-1941 during the 5 day air attacks there, which started on May 3. Sollund was right next to the Greek D/S Moscha D. Kydoniefs which was hit and on fire on May 7 (her crew had gone to the bomb shelters). Sollund had to move to the other side of the dock to avoid the flames, but 1st Mate Thomas Oftedal decided to row back with 5 others to try to save the Greek ship. They fought the flames for 5 hours, and were subsequently able to move her away from the quay and tie her alongside Sollund. (Other Norwegian ships in Liverpool during this bombing raid were M/S Bra-Kar, M/S Mosdale, and D/S Stromboli. According to J. R. Hegland's "Nortraships flåte", M/S Tai Yin and M/S Temeraire were also there, but they were in another part of the world at that time). Sollund took part in Operation Neptune, arriving Normandy with ammunition on June 13-1944, leaving the same day. It took her 4 days to get back to the U.K., so she must have had some kind of problems. She was repaired, and resumed her service to Normandy a few days later, making 25 such voyages altogether (the external website that I've linked to at the end of this page has information on some of the convoys she was in during this time period). When going to Page 12 of the archive documents, we learn that she got to go home to Norway in the summer of 1945, making several more voyages home before that year was over. In fact, it looks like Christmas may have been celebrated while in Norway (she had arrived Skien on Dec. 20, but departure date is not given - she arrived Tyne on Jan. 1-1946). See also Page 13.
Sold to Brødrene Anda, Stavanger in Oct.-1953, to be broken up. Related external links: Mis Convoys - By going to "Ship Search" and typing "Sollund" in the search field, the convoys she sailed in will come up (please note that errors may exist). Back to Sollund on the "Ships starting with S" page. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "Våre gamle skip" by Leif M. Bjørkelund and E. H. Kongshavn - and misc.
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