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D/S Thyra To Thyra on the "Ships starting with T" page. Owner: Skibs-A/S William Hansens Rederi Built by Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Co. Ltd., New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1920. Previous name: Canadian Miner until 1924. Captain: Hans Lyder Jahn
Thyra is listed in the Norway-U.K. Convoy HN 8 in Jan.-1940. There's a ship by this name in the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 20 in Febr.-1940, and in HX 35 in Apr.-1940, but I'm not sure whether this was the Norwegian Thyra. My guess is that the ship in HX 20 was the Swedish Thyra, because the Norwegian Thyra is listed in Convoy OB 83 at the external link below, leaving Liverpool on Febr. 1-1940. In July-1940 she shows up in HX 56, having cancelled from the previous convoy, HX 55. She was bound for Manchester with pulp wood. According to the external site that I've linked to at the bottom of this page, the Norwegian Thyra sailed in Convoy OB 155, leaving Liverpool on May 26-1940. This convoy joined up with Convoy OA 155 on May 29, forming the Gibraltar convoy OG 31, which arrived there on June 3. The ship in question was bound for Bathurst, station 82. In fact the Swedish Thyra is also listed in OB 155. See also my section listing ships in all OG convoys on this site, based on Arnold Hague's own research. Note that the external site already mentioned has Thyra in 2 more OB convoys in the fall of 1940 (OB 204 and OB 207). In Oct.-1940 she was 1 of 7 Norwegian ships in Convoy HX 79. The others were Benwood, Sandanger, Egda, Triton, Høyanger and Ravnefjell. Thyra's destination was Manchester, cargo of sulphite pulp, station 84, and she joined the convoy from Sydney, C.B. The main portion departed Halifax on Oct. 8 and arrived Liverpool on Oct 23 with the loss of 12 ships; no Norwegian ships were lost. The following month she joined Convoy OB 244, together with 11 other Norwegian ships. She's also listed among the ships leaving Halifax with the slow Convoy SC 17 on Dec. 23-1940, bound for Clyde and Grimsby with moist pulp in station 12. She lost touch with the convoy in the morning of Jan. 4.In March-1941 Thyra is listed as bound for Seville, Convoy OG 55 (again, see link to "ships in all OG convoys" above), returning to the U.K. the following month in the Gibraltar-U.K. Convoy HG 59, bound for Barrow with iron ore. The only other Norwegian ship in this convoy was Atle Jarl.
Thyra was on a voyage in convoy* from Clyde to Halifax when she collided with the British destroyer HMS Leamington (G 19 ) just after midnight on May 27-1941 and sank, 52 25N 19 22W. 4 died, the 20 survivors were picked up by Leamington and continued the journey, the British ship having received only minor damages.
Related external links: See also this HX 79, 19 Oct, 1940 - 20 Oct, 1940 Those who died 1941 - *5 are commemorated at this memorial for seamen in Stavern, namely Mate/Radio Operator Gudmund Abelsen (he had joined Iron Baron [possibly the British one? There was also a Norwegian Iron Baron], became ill and died at a Navy hospital in Barnton on May 27-1944, buried in Odda - Source: "Våre falne"), Engineer Carl Johan Barstad, Stoker Lorang Carlson, (in other words, listed as Norwegian), Steward Anton H. Flakke, and Chief Engineer Sverre Sem Sandberg - the latter was a passenger, en route to Halifax to join a ship. Nils Nilsen is not mentioned (it's possible he belongs among the survivors?). Back to Thyra on the "Ships starting with T" page. Wilh. Wilhelmsen also had a D/S Thyra, from 1899 when she was built, (Sunderland, 3742 gt) until lost on a voyage Dundee-New York on June 11-1914. The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland, "The Allied Convoy System", Arnold Hague, "Sjøforklaringer fra 2. verdenskrig", Volume II (Norwegian Maritime Museum) and misc. (ref. My sources).
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