Manager: Westfal-Larsen & Co. A/S Bergen
Tonnage: 6826 gt

Delivered in Sept.-1932 from Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam, 6826 gt, 9774 tdwt, 456' x 61' x 31.3', 7 cyl. 2T 8200 ihp, 15.5 knots.

Related item on this website:
Guestbook message re someone who served on this ship (William Karl Nilsen), as well as Askild, Aragon, Askepot, Meline and Atlantic.

Trondanger was mostly in service South America-U.S., usually sailing independently (without convoy).

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

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

Voyage Record From Apr.-1940 to Aug.-1945:

Follow the convoy links provided for more information on each.

As can be seen, several voyages are not included.

	Departure	From	To	Arrival	Convoy	Remarks
1940	Apr. 7	Rio	Santos	Apr. 8	Independent	See also Page 1
	Apr. 10	Santos	Montevideo	Apr. 13	Independent	On to Buenos Aires Apr. 13 (Page 1).
	Apr. 25	Buenos Aires	Santos	Apr. 28	Independent	–
	May 2	Santos	Rio	May 3	Independent	–
	May 4	Rio	Pernambuco	May 9	Independent	–
	May 11	Pernambuco	Boston	May 22	Independent	–
	May 28	Boston	New York City	May 29	Independent	A. Hague says: Then traded USA/S America to Dec. 3-1941 Missing voyages: Page 1, Page 2 & Page 3
1941	Dec. 6	Santos	Rio	Dec. 8	Independent	–
	Dec. 9	Rio	Maranham	Dec. 15	Independent	–
	Dec. 18	Maranham	Curacao	Dec. 23	Independent	–
	Dec. 24	Curacao	Cristobal	Dec. 26	Independent	–
	Dec. 29	Balboa	Los Angeles	Jan. 7-1942	Independent	–
1942	Jan. 11	Los Angeles	San Francisco	–	Independent	Page 3 gives arrival Jan. 12.
	Jan. 17	San Francisco	Portland, Oreg	Jan. 20	Independent	–
	Jan. 22	Portland, Oreg	Seattle	Jan. 23	Independent	–
	Jan. 24	Seattle	Vancouver	Jan. 24	Independent	–
	Febr. 11	Vancouver	Seattle	Febr. 12	Independent	–
	Febr. 16	Seattle	Portland, Oreg	–	Independent	Again, see Page 3
	Febr. 21	Portland, Oreg	San Francisco	Febr. 23	Independent	–
	Febr. 25	San Francisco	Los Angeles	Febr. 28	Independent	–
	Febr. 28	Los Angeles	Balboa	March 10	Independent	–
	March 12	Cristobal	Santos	March 28	Independent	–
	Apr. 1	Santos	Buenos Aires	Apr. 4	Independent	–
	Apr. 26	Buenos Aires	Boston	May 17	Independent	Via New York (Page 3).
	May 25	Boston	New York City	May 26	Independent	–
	June 8	New York City	Hampton Roads	–	Independent	–
	June 11	Hampton Roads	Rio	June 27	Independent	–
	July 3	Rio	Santos	July 5	Independent	–
	July 11	Santos	Buenos Aires	July 15	Independent	–
	July 29	Buenos Aires	Trinidad	Aug. 13	Independent	–
	Aug. 16	Trinidad	Key West	Aug. 25	TAW 14	Convoy available at TAW 14 (external link)
	Aug. 26	Key West	New York City	Aug. 31	KN 134	Convoy available at KN 134 (external link)
	Sept. 1	New York City	Boston	–	Independent	Page 3 gives arrival Sept. 1
	Sept. 6	Boston	New York City	Sept. 7	Independent	–
	Sept. 28	New York City	–	–	NG 309	For Cristobal. Detached Oct. 3. Convoy available at NG 309 (external link)
	Oct. 3	Detached from NG 309	Cristobal	Oct. 6	Independent	–
	Oct. 7	Balboa	Montevideo	Oct. 25	Independent	–
	Oct. 31	Montevideo	Buenos Aires	Oct. 31	Independent	–
	Nov. 17	Buenos Aires	Montevideo	Nov. 18	Independent	–
	Nov. 19	Montevideo	Valparaiso	Nov. 28	Independent	–
	Nov. 29	Valparaiso	Balboa	Dec. 6	Independent	–
	Dec. 8	Cristobal	New York City	Dec. 15	Independent	–
1943	Jan. 7	New York City	Gitmo	Jan. 11	NG 335	Convoy available at NG 335 (external link)
	Jan. 13	Gitmo	Cristobal	Jan. 15	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	Balboa	Santos	Febr. 7	Independent	–
	Febr. 20	Santos	Montevideo	Febr. 23	Independent	–
	March 16	Buenos Aires	Balboa	Apr. 3	Independent	A. Hague says: Arrived Buenos Aires March 13, departure Montevideo not known, but see Page 4 (also, missing stop, Punta Arenas, March 21)
	Apr. 9	Cristobal	New York City	Apr. 16	Independent	–
	May 8	New York City	Cristobal	May 15	Independent	–
	May 16	Balboa	Rio	June 6	Independent	A. Hague says: Traded NYC/Brazil/Argentina, via Balboa. Missing voyages: Page 4 & Page 5
1944	May 27	New York City	Rio	June 12	Independent	A. Hague says: Resumed direct NYC/Brazil service
	June 18	Rio	Santos	June 19	Independent	–
	June 25	Santos	Montevideo	June 28	Independent	–
	July 5	Montevideo	Buenos Aires	July 6	Independent	–
	July 12	Buenos Aires	Montevideo	July 13	Independent	–
	July 18	Montevideo	New York City	Aug. 6	Independent	–
	Aug. 27	New York City	Rio	Sept. 12	Independent	–
	Sept. 21	Rio	Santos	Sept. 22	Independent	–
	Sept. 28	Santos	Montevideo	Oct. 1	Independent	–
	Oct. 6	Montevideo	Buenos Aires	Oct. 7	Independent	–
	Oct. 14	Buenos Aires	Montevideo	Oct. 15	Independent	–
	Oct. 22	Montevideo	New York City	Nov. 10	Independent	–
	Dec. 13	New York City	Rio	Dec. 29	Independent	–
1945	Jan. 10	Rio	Santos	Jan. 10	Independent	–
	Jan. 17	Santos	Montevideo	Jan. 20	Independent	–
	Febr. 7	Montevideo	New York City	Febr. 28	Independent	–
	March 31	New York City	Liverpool	Apr. 12	CU 64	–
	Apr. 23	Liverpool	New York City	May 5	UC 65A	Convoy will be added. See ships in UC convoys
	May 20	New York City	Liverpool	May 30	CU 71	–
	June 12	Liverpool	New York City	June 22	Independent	–
	July 2	New York City	Liverpool	July 18*	Independent	*Compare w/Page 5
	July 23	Liverpool	New York City	Aug. 1	Independent	–
	Aug. 14	New York City	Liverpool	Aug. 24	Independent	Subsequent voyages: Page 5 above & Page 6

Some Convoy Voyages:

For information on voyages made in between those mentioned here, please see the documents received from the National Archives of Norway and A. Hague's Voyage Record above. As can be seen, Trondanger usually sailed independently.

According to Page 1 of the archive documents, Trondanger was in Santos when war broke out in Norway on Apr. 9-1940; she had arrived there from Rio de Janeiro on Apr. 8. Her 1941 voyages start on Page 2 and continue on Page 3, which also shows some 1942 voyages.

Together with the Norwegian Besholt, Brand, Fernglen, Kaia Knudsen and Skandinavia, she's listed in Convoy TAW 14, which left Trinidad on Aug. 16-1942 and arrived Key West on the 25th. Most of the above ships, including Trondanger, subsequently joined Convoy KN 134, departing Key West on Aug. 26, arriving Hampton Roads on the 31st; Trondanger arrived New York that day. Besholt, Braganza, Fernglen, Kaia Knudsen and Skandinavia are listed. The following month we find her, with destination Cristobal, in Convoy NG 309, which left New York on Sept. 27 and arrived Guantanamo on Oct. 4; Trondanger arrived Cristobal on Oct. 6 (Page 3), having been detached from the convoy on Oct. 3. Braganza was again in company, as were Atlantic, Granville, Kollbjørg, Meline and Petter. See the external links provided within the Voyage Record above for more details on these convoys.

At the beginning of 1943, Trondanger is listed in Convoy NG 335, which departed New York on Jan. 7 and arrived Guantanamo on the 14th (Page 4 of the archive documents gives her arrival Guantanamo as Jan. 11). Borgfred and Far are also included - again, see the external link in the table above. Trondanger later proceeded to Cristobal, with arrival Jan. 15. Page 4 also shows some of her 1944 voyages, while the rest are listed on Page 5, which also has her 1945 voyages (it'll be noticed that she occasionally had long stays in port).

Skipping now to March 31-1945, when I have her in the fast New York-U.K. Convoy CU 64, as the only Norwegian ship. This convoy arrived Liverpool on Apr. 12, and later that month she returned to the U.S. (together with Nordahl Grieg) in Convoy UC 65A, which left Liverpool on Apr. 23 and arrived New York on May 5. This convoy will be added to an individual page in my Convoys section; in the meantime, the ships sailing in it are named on the page listing ships in all UC convoys. She headed in the other direction again on May 20 with Convoy CU 71, arriving Liverpool on the 30th. The Norwegian Elisabeth Bakke, Kaptein Worsøe and Mosdale are also listed in this convoy.

Page 5 also lists some of her early 1946 voyages, as does Page 6.

More information on all the other Norwegian ships mentioned on this page can be found via the alphabet index below, or go to the Master Ship Index.

POST WAR:

Sold in Apr.-1960 to Johs. Presthus, Bergen and renamed Helene Bakke, later Helene Presthus. Broken up in Taiwan in 1968.