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D/S Tore Jarl To Tore Jarl on the "Ships starting with T" page. Manager: Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab, Trondheim Delivered from Fredrikstad Mek. Verksted as Tore Jarl (234) to Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab, Trondheim on Jan. 12-1920. Cargo liner for the Mediterranean service. Captain: F. Møller.
Tore Jarl is listed as sailing in Convoy HN 19 from Norway to the U.K. in March-1940, bound for Blyth in ballast. A French visitor to my site has told me that she sailed from Brest on May 13-1940 in convoy 44-B under French escort. To Casablanca or Oran. (Torfinn Jarl was also in this convoy). The following month we find her in the Gibraltar-U.K. Convoy HG 34, cargo of manganesite for Portland, then London. In Sept.-1940 she shows up in the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 4, which had a large number of Norwegian ships. Tore Jarl was bound for Preston with a cargo of lumber on that occasion. A couple of months later, at the end of Nov.-1940, she was scheduled for Convoy SC 13, but did not sail. In June-1941 she's listed as sailing in the Halifax-U.K. Convoy HX 132, bound for Grimsby with a cargo of lumber. In Nov. that year she was scheduled for Convoy SL 93, which left Freetown on Nov. 19-1941, but did not sail (ref. the external link at the end of this page for more on SL 93). In Jan.-1942 she's listed in the slow Halifax-U.K. Convoy SC 65 together with Norwegian Evanger and Finnanger among others. However, Tore Jarl returned to port and subsequently joined Convoy SC 67, but returned again. She then appears to have been scheduled for Convoy SC 68 but eventually got away with SC 69, cargo of palm nuts for Hull, station 24. She can also be found in Convoy SC 82 in Apr. that year, and at the end of June-1942 she was in the slow Sydney (C.B.)-U.K. Convoy SC 89, cargo of wood pulp. She was scheduled for Convoy SC 97 in Aug.-1942, but did not sail, and was also cancelled from the next convoy, SC 98. She's said to have shot down an enemy aircraft while in Convoy KM 11 on the coast between Bougie and Philippeville on May 21-1943. 2 of the gunners were Rolf Caspersen and Viktor Solberg and 2nd mate E. Olifsen also took part in the defence against the attacker. It appears the pilots of the downed plane were picked up from the water by a corvette. Had the honour of being the first Merchant ship to arrive Bizerta after the allied landings there, together with Bruse Jarl. In Sept.-1943 she made a voyage from Bizerta to Bougie with Convoy MKS 25 - scroll down to the second table on that page. Going back to the external website that I've linked to below Tore Jarl shows up in Convoy OS 72/KMS 46 in March-1944, voyaging from Belfast to Taranto with general cargo in station 31. This convoy left Liverpool on March 23-1944 and split up on Apr. 5, with the Gibraltar portion (KMS 46) arriving there on Apr. 6, while the OS convoy continued to Freetown. Follow the link for more convoy details; as will be seen, Tore Jarl is listed in the Gibraltar portion, KMS 46, which will also be added to my own site.
Tore Jarl was in for repairs and modernizing in Nov.-1945, completed in July 1946. Sold in Jan.-1950 to Nivaldi & Giacomini S.A.L., Transport Maritimi & Terresti, Genoa, Italy and renamed Valgardena, delivered on March 17. Sold again in 1953 to Ligure Veneta di Navigatione S.A., Genoa. Sold in 1956 to Captain Salvatore Lofaro, Napoli, Italy. Broken up in Italy in 1972. Related external link: Back to Tore Jarl on the "Ships starting with T" page. Other ships by this name: The company's first Tore Jarl (ex Narbonne?) was built in 1903, 1256 gt, purchased by Nordenfjeldske in 1911 - torpedoed and sunk by the German UC-49 on May-7-1917 southwest of Sumburgh Head on a voyage Tyne-Trondheim with a cargo of coal and general, as well as 27 passengers, 1 died. The survivors were taken to Lerwick by an English trawler. See also this thread on my Ship Forum. Nordenfjeldske also had a 3rd Tore Jarl, built 1956, 839 gt (later lengthened and became 969 gt). Sold several times between 1976 and 1989, and had the names George Z, North Star, North Sky; still in service as North Sky in 1999 (Roger Smith International, Takoradi).
The text on this page was compiled with the help of: "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland and Det Nordenfjeldske D/S fleet list, Finn R. Hansen (ref. My sources).
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