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IVER BUGGE
SHIPS
SALSAAS 1927
STORAAS 1929
SKOTAAS 1931
SKARAAS 1936
SALSAAS 1940
SVANAAS 1949
SUNNAAS 1952
SKOGAAS 1961
The ships were named after a hills in the Larvik
district.
SALSAAS
Call Sign : WPTL - LCWT
Built 1918 Harland &
Wolff Ltd., Glasgow
Yard Nr : 527
5,214 brt; 3,168 nrt
401ft x 52ft 4ins
Type AO Tanker.
1918 Delivered as WAR
AFRICAN ;
The Shipping
Controller, Managed Weir & Co.
1919 Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co, London.
1921 Renamed ABSIA, same owner.
1927 N.V.Petroleum Mij 'La Corona', The Hague.
1927 Renamed SALSAAS, Skibs A/S Nanset, Larvik, Norway; Iver Bugge
1937 Sold to Bruun & Von der Lippe,
Tønsberg, Norway.
1937 Renamed OAKFIELD, Finchley SS Co. London.
1940 taken over by MOWT (Hunting & Son, manager).
1946 Oak Shipping Co, London; Managed Union Maritime & Shipping Co.
Ltd., London.
1951 Finchley SS Co, London.
1955 Sold for scrap to A. Sonnenburg, Düsseldorf, West Germany;
9th
April Arrived Emden, scrapped by Nordseewerke, 18th April.
Salsaas as SS Absia
STORAAS
Built
1929 A/B Gotaverken, Gøteborg, Sweden
Call
Sign : LDLN
For
Iver Bugges Rederi ; A/S Nanset (Iver Bugge), Larvik, Norway
441.20 x
59.20 x 35.10
7,886
grt; 4,719 nrt; 11,850 dwt
2
stk. 6 cyl. Gøtaverken diesel; 634 bhp.
1943 STORAAS was
in convoy from Simonstown to Abadan in ballast.
28th
May 1943 she was torpedoed by U-177;
position
34.52S : 19.35 E, off Saldanha Bay.
Full
story, crew list on http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/storaas.html
Storaas 1929
SKOTAAS
451ft
2ins x 59ft 3ins x 26ft
8,190 grt; 4,894 nrt
Call Sign : LJSD - LDSK
Built 1931 Caledon
Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee.
Yard Nr 335
She was launched at Dundee on 18th November 1930, and
towed to
Gøteborg for fitting. The work was
done by AB. Gøtaverken, Gøteborg.
The ship was delivered 30th
March 1931.
Engines
: Akers Mekaniske Verksted
Originally
sailing for Nortraship, under the Swedish Managers AB Alse, Malmø.
A/S Nanset (Iver Bugge) of Larvik took over the contract, and bought
the ship.
1946
For ten years, the ship worked for Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co.Ltd., London.
(Skibs
A/S Nanset, Larvik ( Iver Bugges
Rederi, Larvik, Norway ))
1956 Sold N.V. Scheepvaart Mij "Mineral", Rotterdam
(Wm.H.Müller & Co. NV)
for £130,000
1956 LOUIS LANTZ ; Converted to freighter by Howaldtswerke A.G.,
Hamburg.
8,293 grt;
4,205 nrt; 12,140 dwt. Registered Rotterdam, Netherlands
1960 1st
April : Docked at Amsterdam for repairs, but she needed too much work.
Her age had
taken its toll, and she was laid up at Amsterdam for six months.
1960 22nd
October : Arrived at Bruges for scrapping.
Skotaas
SKARAAS
ON 5414402
Call Sign : LJFB
Built 1936 A/B
Götaverken, Gothenburg
Yard Nr : 495
488.20 x
64.50 x 37.50
9,826 brt; 5,941 nrt
Iver Bugges Rederi Larvik,Norway
1936 Delivered to Skibs
A/S Nanset, Larvik, Norway ( Iver Bugge ).
1956 Sold to N.V.
Scheepvaart Mij. "Mineral", Rotterdam.
Managed Wm.H.
Müller & Co. N.V., Rotterdam.
1956 Converted by
Howaldtswerke of Hamburg to a bulk carrier, 6,658 brt.
Renamed JOSEPH
FRERING.
1963 Sold to Eastern
Transport Inc., Monrovia, Liberia.
Renamed WORLD CARRIER.
1971 Sold in November
for scrapping in Japan.
Skaraas
SALSAAS
Built
1945 A/B Gøtaverken, Gøteborg
For
Skibs-A/S Nanset (Iver Bugge), Larvik
465ft
2ins x 59ft 5ins x 27ft 10ins
8,379
grt; 4,978 nrt; 12,660 dwt
Call
Sign LLHB
Oil
engines 4SA 8 Cy. 740 x1500 mm B&W by A/B Gotaverken, Gøteborg.
4,200
bhp; 13 knots
She
was launched in 1940; not ready for the sea.
Laid up in Gothenburg until released in April 1945.
Her completion work took until 1948.
SALSAAS
remained with Skibs A/S Nanset until
1962 Arrived at Bruges, Belgium, on 4 July for
demolition.
Salsaas
launched 1940
SVANAAS became ANCO SWAN (1)
[ Sister to SANDEFJORD 1950
and BUCCANEER 1950 ]
5,675
grt
For
Iver Bugge
6 cyl
2s c.sa diesel by A/B Gotaverken
415.0
x 55.1 x 31.7
Registered
Larvik, Norway
Call
Sign : LNZM.
1964 ANCO SWAN : Iver Bugge ( Anco )
1969 L.S.C.O. DANANG ; Luzon Stevedoring Corp, Lusteveco, Philippines.
1971
Still in Lloyds Register
1984
Lloyds Register no longer includes this name.
Svanaas
SUNNAAS
ON 5424031
Call Sign : LAJT
Built 1952 Caledon
Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Dundee
9,283 brt; 5,201 nrt; 13,810 dwt
1952 Delivered to Skibs A/S Nanset, Larvik, Norway (Iver Bugge, Larvik).
1963 Sold to Global Offshore Structures Ltd., Willemstad-N.A.,
Managed Heerema
Engineering Service. HEEREMA CRANE SHIPS
1963 Rebuilt and
converted to the first craneship,
by N.V. Dok en
Scheepsbouw Mij. Verolme, Rozenburg.
Remeasured 9,622 brt; 3,644 brt; 5,350 dwt.
Renamed GLOBAL
ADVENTURER.
1964 R.E.M. Island built
using GLOBAL ADVENTURER;
First “pirate”
TV station.
1967 GLOBAL ADVENTURER ; sold to Brown & Root Panama S.A.,
Panama,
( Brown &
Root Nederland N.V., Rotterdam ).
1975 Sold for scrapping Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Sunnaas
SKOGAAS
became ANCO SWIFT
Motor
Tanker
Call
sign JXIK
January
1961 Built A/S Akers Mek.Verksted, Oslo; Yard Nr 520
For
Skibs A/S Nanset (Iver Bugge), Larvik
556.9
x 72 x 39.8 ft; 20,505 dwt; 12,959 grt, 7,394 nrt
Engine:
Akers Verft -B&W; 7-cyl; 750x2000mm; 11,500 bhp; 14.5 knots
1964
Renamed ANCO SWIFT
March
1976 Renamed IVER SWIFT
1978
Renamed LAKE KATYA; Cia. Ptolemais Navegacion S.A., Greece
1980
Renamed KATYA; Pamais Mar. Piraeus
1983
Renamed NEW FORTUNE V; Cia. Fortuna Navegacion S.A., Panama
1984
Renamed TAHITIEN; Cie. Maritime Wallisienne, Wallis & Futuna Islands
(France)
[Cie Mar. Geelong, Nuomea]
1985
Papeete,Tahiti as a Storage Tanker
1988
Arrived Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for scrapping
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