Lloyd's Register is clear (in both the ship register and the quarterly casualty returns) that the 1859 iron-hulled steamship FRITHJOF, which they listed as FRIDTHJOV ex-VINETA ex-CITY OF EXETER was wrecked 2/12/1900 outside Bukholmen (Aalesund for Hull with herrings). Owned by Knut Knutsen OAS, Haug...

Found a little more, confirming buyer, in the Starke Schell index:

Sold 1945 to Marine Industries, Ltd., Sorel, P.Q. ffu.

ffu = final fate unknown

This opens the possibility that she was at least partly re-used, rather than just scrapped - perhaps as a pontoon or similar

Probably Canadian razor-blades.
Miramar has disposal as "BU Sorel 1945 (?)"

Just for elimination:
There was a Irishman,Thomas Murphy, who survived the sinking of EARLSTON in Convoy PQ17, but he was an AB and died as a prisoner in an SS labour camp in 1944.

Thanks, Jan-olof
That would be welcome.
I've sent you a PM

Thanks Platon and Jan-Olof.
Is the Swedish report published?

There is no doubt that the Swedish freighter RUDOLF ex-SHILDON (2159g/1922) was sunk in 56°15′N 1°25′W around midnight 2/3 December 1939. Initial reports of cause were split between "mine" and "mine or torpedo"; but as the days went on, particularly after the arrival in port of t...

Thanks Aris
I cannot see the 4th and 5th attachment in the forum link, but the first two seem to be plain NIKOLAOS

Thanks Thorsten.

Former Admiralty trawler CHARLES CHAPPELL of 1917 was sold to Greece soon after WW1 and by the 1930s owned by J Lykouris, Piraeus as NICOLAOS L. I understand that she had had passenger accommodation added; and then in 8/1941 was seized by German forces and designated as "11 V 2" - but then...

Thank you both for your instant replies.
That's certainly clear.

Trawler LOCH SHIN was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a boom defence vessel and was lost in Norway in 1940. http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=54438 Specific date of loss is given as 28/5 https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?239149 26/5 http://www.naval-history.net/xDKWW2-4005-14MAY04.htm and...

Must have left before 11/11/1918, as arrived Liverpool from Sevilla on 22/11/1918

TNA, Kew has ship's log extracts in BT 165/1790
Ship's Name Auldmuir Official Number 110999 Dates of Voyages 23 January 1918 - 27 March 1918 and 18 April 1918 - 29 November 1918.

Thanks Andrzej That sent me digging again - in Jacky Messiaen's Pilotes et Remorqueurs dans la Tourmente: Dunkerque Mai 1940 (2003, author, Broxeele, ISBN 2-903262-06-03) 27/5: A cette date, le COSTAUD est avarié, tandis qu'il sort un navire du F.11 à la mer; navire désemparé 31/5: remorqueur COSTAU...

Thanks Jan-Olof
That sounds like "scuttled by the Germans with explosives"