The Ships This page covers only the ships my late grandfather
Jacob Henrik Sørensen,
my father
Henry (Sørensen ) Herholdt
and  I
Hans Jacob(Sørensen) Herholdt
served on.

NSSR Link.

S/S KORNMO  of Langesund 532 r.t., bygd i Grimstad 1883 06. March 1907  From Langesund to London  / Capt. J. Z. Zachariassen 10.October 1907  From Langesund to London  / Capt. J. Z. Zachariassen Some crew pictures     :                         Jacob Henrik Sørensen

Bark CITO of Brevik 26. August 1907 From Kragerø - abroad  /  Capt. N. Larsen

Bark BEREAN of  Langesund 11. February 1908 From Langesund to London  /   Capt. H.Th. Zachariassen

Skonnert FREMADof Langesund 17. September 1908 from Langesund to London / Capt. L. Hansen

Bark FEUTONIAof Langesund 11.February.1909 From Langesund to London / Capt. O. J. Anker

S/S FRIof Brevik 05 April 1910 From Brevik to  London  ( London 25.04.1910)  / Capt. H.Hansen

Bark TROSVIKofBrevik 06. July 1910 From Brevik -  abroad  / Capt. J.Olsen  06. December 1910 From Porsgrunn - abroad / Capt. J. Olsen

Bark LANGESUNDof Langesund  25. August 1910 From Brevik to London   / Capt.  P. Jacobsen

Bark  TROSVIK  of Brevik 10. December 1910 - 18 January 1911 ( Drammen ) From Porsgrunn - abroad / Capt J . Olsen

Bark EVA  of Langesund  20. October 1910 (Langesund) - 16. November 1910 ( Langesund) From Langesund to Kopenhagen 02.  March. 1912  From Grimsby to London / Capt. H. Henriksen 24 May. 1912 From Brevik  to Portsmunth / Capt. H.Henriksen 20.October - 14. November from Norway to Kopenhagen  Cap. H. Henriksen

S/S FOUTONIA   of LANGESUND 13. March 1911 - 18. November 1911 (Kristiania) From Langesund to London. / Capt. J. Anker

S/S ERNAof Christiania 04. December 1911 - 12. January 1912 (Christiania) From  Skien to Randers      /    Capt. K. Jærge

Bark LØVSPRING Cornelius Røe, Brevik Capt. Edw. Abrahamsen ? 18. Juli 1912 From Brevik -abroad ( London 03.08.1912 /  London 07.10. 1912) / Capt. E. Abrahamsen  18. July 1912 - 5. November 1912 (Christiania)

D/S FLUKT Jacobsen & co, Langesund / sold to Oslo i 1917.  Jacobsen & Co, Langesund 20. January 1913 - 18. March 1814 (Langesund) Capt. A. Olsen ? From Brevik to Moss My saurces : Langesund Sjømannsforening

D/S UNITA H. M. Wrangell & Co. A/S, Haugesund      F :( 1916 -1949 ) 2345 / 3587  1949 Hong Kong Built in Walker-on-Tyne, delivered in June-1906 as Unita for P. A. Grøn, Sandefjord. Purchased in Aug.-1916 by D/S-A/S Corona (H. M. Wrangell & Co. A/S).  Sold in Sept.-1949 to Wallem & Co. Ltd., Panama and renamed Alina. From 1951 she was registered for Far Eastern & Panama Transport Co., Hong Kong. Broken up in 1953. 03. December 1915 - 22. March 1919    ( Cardiff ) Capt.  S. Lyngholm

D/S TERNESKJÆR of Langesund Jacobsen & Co, Langesund 03. September. 1919 - 10.April. 1920 Capt. A. Olsen

D/S EVANGER Westfal Larsen & Co. BERGEN /    Built in West Hartlepool  Irvie1920 - -  5. 1952 Hong Kong 5. July 1920  (Bergen ) - 18. December 1924  18. December 1924 - 22. May 1926 (Los Angeles) 23. October 1926 - 08.  March 1927 ( Buenos Aires)

M/S VILlANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.     BERGEN  / Built in Newcastle 1929. Sold by Westfal Larsen in 1955 to Harbour Line Ltd, London, and renamed Castle Harbour. Sold during May 1959 to Hong Kong breakers, having been laid up at that port since March 11-1959. Some crew pictures                  17. August  1929  -  01 March 1932 ( Roterdam )

M/S BERGANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.     BERGEN / Built in Amsterdam 1932. Captain Alm Normann Nymann. Sailed between the west coast of U.S.A. and Brazil/Argentina until May 4-1942  Capt, Alm Norman Nymann. fam. of Jacob Henrik Sørensen Link.  Lillesand Sjømansforening : Capt. Nymann http://www.sjohistorie.no/skip/b/berganger?distrikt= 10. August 1932 ( Bergen ) - 15. May  1936  02. August 1936 (Roterdam) - 02. January ? (Roterdam) The story and the desteny of  M/S Berganger . Capt.Normann Nymann http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/berganger.html

M/S HERANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co. /   BERGEN                F :4877 / 8380 / 8.1930 B&W - 6.1959 Moaco  Built in Copenhagen 1930.Was managed during the war years by Canada Steamship Lines Ltd, Montreal. Heranger was in Convoy HX 160 in Nov.-1941, and mentioned as being part of Convoy ON 127 in Sept.-1942. Sold in 1959 to Societe Monegasque de Transports Maritimes, Monaco, renamed St. Charle My saurces : http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.htm 11.November 1939 (Bergen) - 28. Febryary 1942 (San Pedro)

M/S TORRENS                Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Tønsberg  / Built in Malmö, launched Apr. 5-1939, completed May 31. Captain Thor Bruu. Served as troopship between 1942 and 1946 (U.S.A.T. 25), operating on behalf of the United States War Shipping Administration by Barber Steamship Lines and the American West African Line, able to carry up to 1702 passengers (others say over 2000 troops), equipped at Betlehem Steel in San Francisco, complete with a hospital and operating room. She became known as "The Ship of Good Cheer". Her first journey as troopship took place in the summer of 1942 from San Francisco to Brisbane. In the first 6 months of 1943 she made 3 trips between San Francisco and Noumea, New Guinea.  Torrens transported about 58 000 American troops to various areas of the Pacific, distributed on 20 trips from the west coast of the US. On each trip she had about 4000 tons cargo, mainly war materials and equipment for the troops. Sold on June 3-1966 to Dimitra Cia. Nav. S.A. (Michail A. Karageorgis, and latterly E.T. Kolintzas, manager), Greece and renamed Georgios M. Sold to H. Si Chiao El Le Kou, Peking for scrapping. Delivered at Hsinkang to Chinese shipbreakers on Apr. 13-1970.  My saurces : http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html. 18. June 1942 ( San Francisco) - 14. February  1945 ( San Francisco) M/S Torrens 01. June 1945 ( San Francisco) - 23. April 1946 ( New York)

HENRY SØRENSEN   b. 17.02.1913 - d. 15.01.1979

M/S VILLANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN / Built in Newcastle 1929. Sold by Westfal Larsen in 1955 to Harbour Line Ltd, London, and renamed Castle Harbour.Sold during May 1959 to Hong Kong breakers, having been laid up at that port since March 11-1959 My saurces : www.warsailors. 16. August 1929 - 09. May 1933 Some crew pictures        Crew 1930                                  31. August 1936 - 10. May 1938

M/S BRANDANGER                                                                            Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN / Built in Copenhagen 1926. Captain Elling J. Andresen. In Convoy HX 77 when torpedoed in the engine room port side by U-48 (Bleichrodt) on October 11-1940, position 57 02N 17 42W. She was on a voyage from San Pedro to Liverpool with 8000 tons general cargo (lumber and metals). The lifeboats on the port side were blown away, the starboard motorboat was crushed against the side of the ship while being lowered and the 5 who were in it fell in the water (1 was later picked up by the 1st mate's boat). Captain Andresen and Carpenter Sigurd Svendsen drifted clear on a raft as Brandanger sank 20 minutes later. They were picked up the next morning by the corvette Clarkia, as were the 14 in the 2nd mate's boat, while 8 others in the 1st mate's boat were found on the afternoon of the 16th by S/S Clan MacDonald and landed in Liverpool 3 days later - 6 had died.  2nd mate Henry Sørensen: http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/brandanger.html My saurces : http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html U-boat net:    http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/584.html 01. July 1938 - 30. October 1940

S/S SIR ERNEST CASSEL SWEDEN 08. November 1940 - 01. January 1941 Later Sir Ernst Cassel was captured and sunk by T/S Thor ( March 25-1941) T/S Thor (HSK IV SCHIFF 10) belonging to Oldenburg-Portugiesischen Dampfschiffs-Reederei. Built in 1938. More pictures of S/S SIR ERNEST CASSEL : My saurces : http://kommandobryggan.se/granges/cassel.htm http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html.

M/S FERNLANE Fearnley & Eger, Oslo / Built in Copenhagen, Denmark 1927. Captain Henrik A. Irgens. Torpedoed by the Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli (Cossato), position 10 02N 20 17W on May 7-1941. She had departed Gourock for Freetown in convoy on April 17, with a cargo of 1585 tons salt, 103 tons iron constructions, 8 gliders and 26 loaded trucks from Manchester, left the convoy on April 23 at 20 ° W and continued south alone. The first torpedo hit in the afterpart of the ship, setting the engine room on fire, but the engineers were able to get to the boat deck, and stopped the engine from there. 4 lifeboats were launched, 3 of which were ordered to leave, while the radio aereal, which had fallen down was rigged up again and a distress call sent out, but when a second torpedo was observed on the port side the captain's boat also set off (from starboard) before the torpedo detonated in the engine room, causing Fernlane to take on a list and start to sink. The sub surfaced and sent off a third torpedo which hit amidships on the starboard side. She listed heavily to starboard, broke amidships and sank quickly by the bow. The crew of 32 (+3 passengers and a dog?) survived. The motor boat took the other boats in tow and headed for Bissagos Islands. When the petrol was used up the boats set sail and landed at Carabella Island on the morning of May 11, where they were fed and given petrol for the motor lifeboat, before continuing to Bissau arriving in the evening of May 13. The cruiser Dorsetshire had caught the radio signals but was not in a position to be able to assist. (The majority of this info is from "Nortraships flåte", J. R. Hegland). 2nd mate Henry Sørensen : http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/fernlane.html My saurces : www.warsailors. 21. March 1941 - 17. July 1941

M/T GARD H. M. Wrangell & Co. A/S, Haugesund / Built in Gothenburg, Sweden 1938, delivered in Nov. to Skibs-A/S Corona (H. M. Wrangell). 02.September 1941 - 30. September 1943.  Laid up in Bøvågen, Avaldsnes (Norway) from June 26-1959 until March 1961, when she was sold to Norsk Skipsopphugging, Oslo/Grimstad (breakers), towed to Grimstad and broken up in the fall of 1961. My saurces : http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html.

M/T DALFONN Sigvald Bergesn, Stavanger  / Built in Gothenburg, Sweden 1928. 24. November 1943 - 02. July 1945 In Convoy OB 259 in Dec.-1940, 35 ships. May very well have saved the Dutch tanker Pendrecht from being shelled and sunk by U-96, which according to "Nortraships flåte" had just attacked the Dutch vessel with her last torpedo when Dalfonn appeared on the scene (Dec. 18) having herself previously lost the convoy in bad weather. When Dalfonn's people spotted the U-boat, which until then had been hidden by the tanker they suspected the stricken vessel to be a decoy, possibly a supply ship, and quickly removed themselves, while at the same time sending out radio signals of the situation and firing the guns. 7 shots were fired, but none hit. A few miles away they now observed a British cargo ship which also had spotted the U-boat and which fired at it, whereupon the boat disappeared. The Dutch seamen were then able to take their ship to port. (Pendrecht was torpedoed and sunk by U-48 on June 8 the following year).  In Aug.-1944 Dalfonn was in the large Convoy HX 303 which departed New York on Aug.11 with 104 ships, arrived Liverpool on Aug. 27. 16 other Norwegian ships were also in this convoy, namely Tanafjord, Romulus, Noravind, Atlantic, Sommerstad, Skotaas, Geisha, Thorhild, Petter, Stirlingville, Rena, Para, Titanian, Mui Hock, Fjordaas and Norse Lady,  Sold in 1950 to Thomas Entz Tanker GmbH, Germany, and renamed Elizabeth Entz. Sold to Japanese breakers in 1960 and sailed from Tokuyama on Sept. 16-1960 for Hirao to be broken up. My saurces : http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/index.html

M/S EIDANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 21. December 1946 - 20. June 1949

Henry Sørensen was the harbour master in Langesund between 1949 - 1953

M/S TRONDANGER  Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN /Built in Amsterdam 1932. 13. May 1953 - 19. June 1953

Henry Sørensen took his grandfather Henrik Herholdt`s surname the 15 of February 1954.
It was a promise he gave to the old man.

M/S FALKANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN / Built in Nakskov, Denmark 1943. 19. June 1953 - 29. August 1955

Henry Herholdt was the harbour master in Langesund between 1955 - 1956

M/S HARDANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 18. June 1956 - 26. July 1957

M/S EVANGER  Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 27. July  1957 - 23. August 1958

M/S PORSANGER     Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN                                                                                                                                   17.Oktober 1958 - 06. July 1961 23.October  1961 - 11. March 1964 25. July 1964 - 14. April 1965 19. January 1972 - 29 November 1972

M/S NORDANGER  Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 12. March 1964 - 24. July 1964

M/S HERANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 01. Desember 1965 - 13. December 1965

M/S HARDANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 01. February 1966 - 29. February 1968

M/S HOSANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 01. November 1968 - 24. February 1970 11. October 1973 - 08 February 1974

M/S BRIMANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN 08.June 1970 - 17. July 1971

HANS JACOB (SØRENSEN) HERHOLDT b. 05.02.1951

02.08 - 30.10 1967

M/S HARDANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN From  Vancouver Canada 07.11.1968  to Buanos Aires, Arentina 2.04.1969

THE  NORWEGIAN NAVY              K.N.M.   OSLO                                                                                                                  K.N.M.   TRONDHEIM

M/S HOSANGER     Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN From Montrial, Canada 30.10.1969 to Seatle, USA  28.10.1970 From Valpareiso, Chile 1974 to Livorno, Italy 1975        Westfal Larsen & Co A/S,  Bergen  http://www.westfal-larsenseilere.com/

M/T Austanger Sandefjord, Norway  04.07 -17.07.1972

M/S RAVNANGER Westfal Larsen  & Co.    BERGEN  From Port of Spain, Trinidad  1977 to Vancouver, Canada 1978

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