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Hearts of Oak
Athel Line –
Anco
Parcel Tanker
Service
Iver Bugge of Larvik, established his company, in 1905, importing
coal on sailing vessels. His business failed after WWI. Shell Oil (Anglo Saxon
Petroleum Co Ltd ) also feeling the pressure of markets, decided to sell off
their fleet, and charter those ships. One of these companies was Skibs A/S
Nanset, controlled by Iver Bugge. In 1927 the company took delivery of the SS
ABSIA ( originally a cargo vessel built in Glasgow in 1918, converted to a
tanker by Shell ) and renamed her SALSAAS. The association with Shell came to
an end after WWII and Skibs A/S Nanset pioneered, with others (Henry
Collingwood and A O Andersen, Haldor Virik and L. Gill-Johannessen), the parcel
tanker concept.
Henry Collingwood, of London, was a distributor of SUN
lubricating oils in the UK. Originally he had imported the oils in drums from
the USA, but because of the high demand he decided to import in bulk. He
approached A.O. Anderson in Norway. Three ships were employed, each having
twenty four cargo tanks and were provided with two pump rooms, enabling them to
handle multiple grades.
SANDEFJORD
5676 tons 1950 : Haldor Virik
SVANAAS 5665
tons 1949 : Iver Bugge
BUCCANEER 5675
tons 1950 : A O Andersen
The company was originally traded as the 'Tanker Parcel
Service' and, as the concept developed, moved on to transporting vegetable oils
in bulk and from the early sixties various chemical products. They later came up with an identity of Anco from ANdersen /
COllingwood.
Besides the ships which Andersen owned and ran before the formation of ANCO, Parcel
Tanker Trade was pioneered by the firm of A.O. Andersen ( which later became
Ole Schrøder ). Captain Rudolf Histand, Andersen’s technical consultant, had
developed plans for specialised tankers designed to carry several grades of oil
simultaneously as far back as 1944.
Three contracts based on these plans were placed at
Sweden’s Götaverken shipyard,
and the 8,800 dwt SVANAÅS (Iver Bugge), delivered in
August 1949,
is said to have been the world’s first parcel tanker.
AO Andersen’s business interests included A.O. Andersen
& Co Eftf A/S,
Flere Brukere, Anco Tanker Service A/S, Saga Shipping
Group,
Ole Schrøder & Co., Carsten Hansteen and Sagatiltak
A/S
Ole Schrøder’s
business interests included Ole Schrøder & Co. A/S,
Flere Brukere and Saga Shipping Group
Anco Tanker Service A/S
were registered as
Anco Parcel Tanker Operators and Tanker Brokers
The major ship owners of Parcel Tanker Service are listed
below,
and each page includes ships
which they owned before 1964,
when the ANCO identity came into being.
IVER BUGGE SHIPS A O ANDERSEN SHIPS HALDOR VIRIK SHIPS
A.O. Andersen
lost the BUCCANEER in this Operation
Iver Bugge’s SUNNAAS became Heerema’s first Crane Ship
Raymond
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