Manager: Rasmus F. Olsen, Bergen
Tonnage: 575 gt

Delivered in July-1889 from Bergens mek. Verksted, Bergen as Tordenskjold to Rasmus F. Olsen, Bergen, 575 gt, 340 net, 730 tdwt, 169.4' x 26.3' x 11', Triple exp. 79 nhp (Bergen mek. Verksted).

Her voyages are listed on these original images from the Norwegian National Archives:
Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 | Page 13 | Page 14 | Page 15

Please compare the above voyages with Arnold Hague's Voyage Record below.

Voyage Record From March-1940 to Oct.-1942:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

Errors may exist - this could also mean that she may not have sailed in all the convoys listed here. In fact, some of the entries in this record belong to the 921gt Tordenskjold.

It'll also be noticed, when following the convoy links, that A. Hague has listed the ship as the other Tordenskjold in all these convoys, when it should be the ship discussed here. Also, as can be seen, several voyages are missing.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1940	March 15	Methil	Norwegian Waters	March 18	ON 20	See also narrative below
	March 31	Norwegian Waters	Methil	Apr. 4	HN 23B	–
	Apr. 9	Norwegian Waters	Methil	Apr. 12	HN 25	Later arrived Sunderland Apr. 14 (Page 1)
	May 4	Sunderland	Southend	May 6	FS 162	See also Page 1. Convoy available at FS convoys (external link) Missing voyages, Page 1.
	July 14	Southend	Tyne	July 16	FN 222	Convoy available at FN convoys (external link) To Blyth, Aug. 8 (Page 1).
	Aug. 9	Blyth	Southend	Aug. 11	FS 247	Convoy available at FS convoys (external link) See also Page 1
	Aug. 25	Southend	Tyne	Aug. 27	FN 262	Convoy available at FN convoys (external link) Missing movements, Page 1
	Sept. 26	Methil	Liverpool	Sept. 28*	OA 220	Methil to Liverpool. *Page 1 gives arrival Sept. 30 Convoy available at OA 220 (external link) Missing movements, Page 1
	Oct. 23	Clyde	Methil	Oct. 27	WN 25	Convoy available at WN convoys (external link)
	Oct. 30	Methil	Southend	Nov. 2	FS 323	Again, see also Page 1. Convoy available at FS convoys (external link)
	Dec. 6	Southend	Hull*	Dec. 8	FN 352	Convoy available at FN convoys (external link) *Arrived Goole, Dec. 9 (Page 1).
?	Dec. 17	Middlesbrough	Southend	Dec. 19	FS 363	Not included, Page 1. Convoy available at FS convoys (external link)
1941	*Jan. 13	Middlesbrough	Southend	Jan. 16	FS 387	*Compare w/Page 2 (also, missing movements). Convoy available at link above
	Apr. 12	Southend	Gt Yarmouth Rds	Apr. 12	EC 6	Convoy available at EC convoys (external link) Missing movements: Page 2 above & Page 3
	July 23	Oban	Methil	July 27	WN 157	Convoy available at WN convoys (external link) More 1941 movements: Page 3 above & Page 4
1942	Febr. 27	Methil	Kirkwall	March 1	EN 52	Earlier 1942 movements: Page 4 above. Convoy available at EN convoys (external link) A. Hague says: Methil to Kirkwall (compare w/Page 4 - also, more missing movements).
?	March 30	Methil	Oban	Apr. 1	EN 65	Convoy available at link above. Compare w/Page 4 (also, more missing movements).
	Tordenskjold is listed Convoy EN 75, which left Methil on Apr. 24 and arrived Oban Apr. 26 (external link). According to Page 4, she stopped at Kirkwall on Apr. 25, continuing to Lerwick that same day. This is the only convoy in which A. Hague has listed her as the Tordenskjold built in 1889.
	Apr. 30	Lyness	Methil	May 2	WN 277	Again, compare w/Page 4. Convoy available at WN convoys (external link) Missing movements: Page 4 & Page 5
?	June 27	Methil	Inverness	June 27	EN 103	Compare w/Page 5 Convoy available at EN convoys (external link) Missing movements, Page 5
	July 21	Methil	Kirkwall	July 22	EN 113	Convoy available at link above. On to Lerwick, same day, back to Kirkwall (Page 5).
	July 27	Kirkwall	Methil	July 28	WN 314	Convoy available at WN convoys (external link) Missing movements, Page 5
	Aug. 14	Methil	Scrabster	Aug. 15	EN 124	Convoy available at EN convoys (external link) Missing movements: Page 5 above & Page 6
	Oct. 20	Methil	Lossiemouth	Oct. 21	EN 152	Convoy available at link above Missing 1942 movements: Page 6 above
	For her 1943 voyages, please go to: Page 6, Page 7 & Page 8 1944 voyages are shown on: Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12 & Page 13 Page 13 also has some 1945 voyages, while the rest are listed on Page 14 & Page 15 (to March-1946). It'll be noticed that the following 2 entries in A. Hague's record do not match up with the voyages shown on the archive documents. In fact, they belong to the 921gt Tordenskjold.
1943	Aug. 10	Reykjavik	Loch Ewe	Aug. 14	RU 85	(This was the other Tordenskjold)
1944	Aug. 14	Southampton	Seine Bay	Aug. 14	ETC 67	(Also the other Tordenskjold). Convoy available at ETC convoys (external link)

Misc. War Details:

For information on voyages made after those mentioned here, please see the documents received from the National Archives of Norway and A. Hague's Voyage Record above. Please follow the convoy links provided for more details; they all had several Norwegian ships.

Tordenskjold, in ballast for Sunderland, is listed as sailing in Convoy HN 15 from Norway to the U.K. at the end of Febr.-1940. There's also a ship by this name in Convoy ON 20 from the U.K. to Norway in the middle of March; this was probably the 575 gt Tordenskjold as well (A. Hague says it was the other Tordenskjold). At the end of March, we find her in the original Advance Sailing Telegram for Convoy HN 23B*, again in ballast for Sunderland, but it looks like she may not have sailed in this convoy (or returned). There's a Tordenskjold in Convoy HN 25, which left Bergen on Apr. 7-1940 and arrived Methil on the 12th, and although A. Hague lists her as the other ship by this name, it must have been the Tordenskjold discussed here, because this agrees with the details found on Page 1, showing her voyages in this period. She arrived Sunderland on Apr. 14.

*Note that there seems to be some confusion as to the identity of the ship in HN 23B, in that the original Advance Sailing Telegram for this convoy says it was the 575 gt Tordenskjold, while Arnold Hague claims it was the 921 gt Tordenskjold - follow the link to my page about this ship. Because of what we know about the spring-1940 activities of the other ship, it's fairly easy to determine that she could not have been in the above convoys. As already indicated, the 921 gt Tordenskjold is listed by A. Hague in all the convoys in the table above, however, when comparing the dates with the info found on the various archive documents for the 575 gt Tordenskjold, we can conclude that most of the information in his record pertains to this ship (except Convoy RU 85 and ETC 67).

Apart from a couple of voyages to France in May-1940, Tordenskjold was subsequently mostly in service around the U.K. It'll be noticed, when going to the archive documents, that she occasionally had long stays in port.

From Page 15, we learn that she got to go home to Norway already in July-1945, making more voyages home later that year. The document also shows some of her early 1946 voyages.

POST WAR:

Purchased in 1948 by A/S Tankfart (Erik Lindøe), Haugesund. Sold in 1950 to Ths. Smedsvig & Co. A/S, went to Erik Smedsvig that same year. Delivered in 1952 to O. Bulens, Hoboken, Antwerp for breaking up. At the time she was Norway's oldest ship in foreign trade.

Back to Tordenskjold on the "Ships starting with T" page.

Other ships by this name:
The book "Damp - Dampskipets æra i Vestfold" mentions a whale catcher by this name, built 1899, no tonnage given. Owned by Th. Laurantson, Tønsberg, then by Durban Whaling Co. from 1913 (Mackeurtan), whose Norwegian representative was Johs. Bruu, Tønsberg. Owned by The Grinrod Whaling Co., Cape Town in 1928. Also, this book lists a D/S Tordenskjold, built 1889, 1186 gt - for Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Tønsberg. Sold to Japan in 1903, renamed Chiyoda Maru 2, aground 1917, but refloated and repaired, sank near Iwate Apr. 11-1920. Another D/S Tordenskjold was built for Wilh. Wilhelmsen in Newcastle in 1903, 3572 gt. Had owners in Stettin from 1922, renamed Hunding, then Katharina Dorothea Fritzen of Emden 1924-1925 - lost near Skudenes on voyage Rotterdam-Narvik in ballast. (Source: Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list).