M/S Tricolor

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Some War Voyages:

(More will be added).

According to the first external website that I've linked to below, Tricolor sailed in Convoy SLF 41, which left Freetown on July 28-1940 and arrived Liverpool on Aug. 14 (having joined up with Convoy SL 41 on Aug. 8). Tricolor was bound for Belfast in station 92 of the convoy. The company's Temeraire is also listed, while Wilhelmsen's Tancred sailed in SL 41.

Rescued the 36 (39?) survivors from Tancred on Sept. 27-1940, after that ship had been torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 26, and landed them in New York (follow link to Tancred above for details).

In service between Australia and various ports in East Africa, Mauritius, Lourenco Marques, Durban.

In the summer of 1944 we find her listed among the ships in Convoy GUS 47, which left Port Said on July 24-1944; Tricolor was on a voyage from Fremantle for Naples/Castellamare/Augusta, and left the convoy on July 29, as did Polartank, which had also joined the convoy in Port Said, together with Kong Sverre, Fernplant and Lidvard, while Topdalsfjord later joined from Bizerta.

POST WAR:

Fire broke out on Febr. 28-1956 in the jute in No. 3 'tweendeck when she was near Rangoon on a voyage from Chittagong to Oslo with general cargo. Beached the next day on Liffey Sands but broke in two and became a total loss. The wreck was sold to L. Bauer of London on Sept. 22-1956 and a local salvor was engaged to salvage her cargo.

Related external links:
SL Convoys - As will be seen, Tricolor is listed in SLF 41.

The Australian War Memorial has a picture of this ship. It can be found by running a search through their collection search page.

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Other ships by this name: This was the 4th in a line of 6 ships by this name owned by Wilh. Wilhelmsen through the years. The company's 1st Tricolor was built in 1904, wrecked in fog the following year off Eureka, California on a voyage Nanaimo, B. C. to San Francisco with coal. Their 2nd Tricolor (built 1906) had been sold to Germany in 1925 and renamed Wittekind, bombed and sunk by British aircraft on Jan. 14-1944 on a voyage Narvik-Germany. The company had lost their 3rd Tricolor on Jan. 5-1931, built 1925, 6119 gt - sunk by internal explosions on a voyage from Oslo and Hamburg to Yokohama carrying large consignments of chemical products. Wilhelmsens 5th Tricolor was built in 1959, renamed Troja in 1971, became Panamanian Belalcazar in 1979, then Kota Makmur of Singapore 1980, scrapped in China 1985. A 6th Tricolor was built in 1972, became the Cape Diamond for the U.S. Reserve Fleet in 1985. Wilhelmsen also had a more recent Tricolor, which sank with almost 3000 luxury cars after having been struck by the container ship Kariba on Dec. 14-2002. Several vessels later struck the wreck (Nicola, Vicky). Salvaged and broken up by Smit-Tak?

The text on this page was compiled with the help of: Wilh. Wilhelmsen fleet list and misc.