Senja (ship, 1938)

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The Senja was a Norwegian cargo ship that was requisitioned by the German Navy in 1944 , sunk by British aerial bombs in 1945 , lifted, repaired and put back into service under the Norwegian flag in 1947, and sank under the Greek flag in 1973 after a collision in the Mediterranean .

history

The Senja was built in 1938 by Moss Værft & Dokk in Moss with hull number 72 for Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab in Stokmarknes . She was 65.3 m long and 10.55 m wide, had a 4.15 m draft and was measured at 858 GRT and 421 NRT. Its load capacity was 1405 tdw. A 4-stroke, 7-cylinder diesel engine from MAN developed 765 hp and gave a top speed of 11.5 knots .

She was delivered in July 1938 and, like her two sister ships Vardø and Andenes , was used in coastal freight traffic on the Hurtigruten between Oslo and Kirkenes .

During the German occupation of Norway from April 1940, she mostly drove on the Oslo - Havnnes (Hamnnes) route on the island of Uløya on the Lyngenfjord ; occasionally she also fetched coal from Svalbard .

In October 1944, the ship was requisitioned by the occupying forces and used with German crew under the German flag as a supply ship for the Navy in Northern Norway . On May 4, 1945, the ship, as well as the living and submarine depot ship Black Watch and the submarine U 711 , were in a British air raid ( Operation Judgment ) on the submarine in Kilbotn Bay south of Harstad -Sunk base of the Kriegsmarine.

In 1947 the ship was lifted and repaired by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo and then, now measured at 891 GRT, used again on the route from Oslo to Kirkenes in April 1948. In December 1966, the ship was the name Hestmannen renamed because the shipping company a built this year larger ship named Senja took into operation. In 1967 the ship was sold to the Pramnos Shipping Agency in Piraeus (Greece), which renamed it Pramnos . On May 10, 1973, during a journey with cement from Civitavecchia to Marina di Carrara , the Pramnos collided with the motor ship Tony in front of Porto Santo Stefano and sank.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ More precisely: 765 bhp.
  2. ↑ Motor ship Senja , IMO no. 6706450, 1337 BRT, 2018 tdw load capacity, 78.1 m long, 13.3 m wide, built in 1966 by Kaldnes Mekaniske Verksted in Tønsberg , sold to the Faroe Islands in 1974 and renamed Blikur , sold in 1979 after renaming to Blikur II , for cattle transport rebuilt and renamed Siba Bari , sold in 1988 and renamed El Novillo , flag Panama, broken up in India in 1999. ( http://fragtskip.123.is/blog/yearmonth/2012/11/4/ )

Web links

literature

  • Reidar Stavseth: På Nordnorsk kjøl - Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab gjennom 75 år. Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab, 1956
  • Death trap "Black Watch" , in: U-Boot im Focus , No. 5, Luftfahrtverlag-Start, Bad Zwischenahn, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941437-03-6