M/T Storanger

To Storanger on the "Ships starting with S" page.


Source: Bjørn Milde's postcard collection.

Some War Voyages:

According to a posting to my Ship Forum (by Roland Berr), U-26 sighted Storanger at 09:30 on Nov. 4-1939 in square CG 46. The boat dived at 09:45 and started to follow the tanker, surfacing nearby at 11:00 and stopped her for a control. She was in ballast en route from Rotterdam to Suez at the time and was released again arround 12:00. Roland says, "As U-26 operated without MQ-charts on this mission there are very poor positions given. In this case we have just the so called Mittagsbesteck (position at noon) that shows 39°15'N - 11°35'W. This would be square CG 4633". (For info, Roland has collected a lot of KTB's, which can be reached through this external page).

In June-1940 Storanger can be found among the ships in the Bermuda portion of Convoy HX 47, in which the Norwegian Italia was sunk. Several Norwegian ships took part.

The external webste that I've linked to at the end of this page has her in station 72 of Convoy SL 70, which left Freetown on March 29-1941 and arrived Liverpool on Apr. 23. Follow the link for names of other Norwegian ships taking part. She received minor damages during an air attack in Milford Haven on May 7-1941. 1 man was injured.

In the fall of 1941 she joined the westbound North Atlantic Convoy ON 9, leaving Liverpool on Aug. 20-1941 (Storanger's destination is given as Curacao), returning to the U.K. the following month with Convoy HX 152 (in station 83) along with the Norwegian Drammensfjord (106), Beth (44), Evita (93), Trondheim (95), Salamis (84), and Høegh Giant (92), all listed on this website. This convoy left Halifax on Sept. 28 and arrived Liverpool on Oct. 14. Follow the links for more details on these convoys. Storanger (and Evita) subsequently joined the westbound Convoy ON 40 towards the end of the following month; Storanger's destination is given as Baytown. This convoy is available and will be added to my Convoys section on an individual page, along with more information on it, as soon as I can - in the meantime, please go to ON 40 in the section listing ships in all ON convoys.

POST WAR:

Sold in Febr.-1957 to Calibris Nav. Co., Liberia, and renamed Calibris (Liberian flag). Sold April 1959 to Eckhardt & Co. GmbH and arrived at Hamburg on May 17-1959 to be broken up.

Related external link:
SL convoys - As can be seen, Storanger is listed in Convoy SL 70, as are several other Norwegian ships. The site also has a section on OS/KMS Convoys and several other convoy series.

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Westfal-Larsen later had another ship by this name, delivered in Jan.-1960 from Rosenberg Mek. Verksted, Stavanger, 20 417 gt. Sold to Cyprus (Astir Nav. Co. Ltd., Famagusta) in May-1969, renamed Anson. Sold in 1980 to International Shipholding S.A., Panama, renamed Coral George. Sold again that same year to Everest Oil Pte. Ltd., Panama, renamed Celeste. Sold in 1981 to Helsal Product Carriers S.A., Panama, renamed Jaya Mulio. Sold for breaking up in Taiwan 1983.

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, Westfal-Larsen fleet list, E-mails from R. W. Jordan and misc. (ref. My sources).