Flytende hvalkokeri D/S Orwell

Other names: ex Knight Templar
Call sign: LCUV - LFKG
Class: DNV 1A1. Tankskip for oljelast med eksplosjonspunkt over 56 1/2 grad C
Shipping company: Tønsberg Hvalfangeri A/S,Tönsberg
Nationality: Norway
Home port: Tønsberg
Enlistment district: Tønsberg

Shipyard

Name: Charles Connel & Co., Scotstoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
Build year: 1905
Month of delivery: november

Other

Participant in WW2
Civilian ship

Tonnage

Gross tonnage:: 8.095
Net tonnage:: 5.169
Deadweight:: 10.600

Engine

Propulsion:: Triple 3 cyl.
Engine size:: NHK 586
Speed:: 10 knop

Dimensions

Length:: 470.0'
Beam:: 58.0'
Draft:: 31.8'

Miscellaneous

Crew list

Seafarer	Nationality	Position	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position	Harbour	Date 🠗₁	Harbour	Date
Helge Hansen	Norway	1. Maskinist (Maskinsjef)	London	8/4/1943	Tønsberg	7/18/1945
Lorang Astrup Christensen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Liverpool	8/5/1943	Gourock	4/6/1944
Peder Sofus Rosvold	Norway	Smører	Halifax	9/2/1943	Plymouth	9/20/1943
Aksel Gulliksen	Norway	3. Maskinist	Plymouth	9/21/1943	Tønsberg	7/17/1945
John Richard Bacon	Great Britain	Messegutt	London	9/25/1943	Gourock	11/19/1943
Bjarne Nes	Norway	Motormann	London	9/25/1943	Glasgow	11/29/1943
Allan Roy Vendel Hansen	Sweden	Matros / Skytter	Plymouth	9/25/1943	Gourock	10/19/1944
Arne Julius Ellingsen	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	11/16/1943	Belfast	4/23/1945
Eivind Osmo	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	11/16/1943	Gourock	10/13/1944
John Willis	Great Britain	Telegrafist	Glasgow	11/17/1943	Glasgow	11/1943
Edward Paterson	Great Britain	Messe / Lugargutt	Gourock	11/25/1943	New York	2/18/1944
Harry Johan Nilsen	Norway	2. Kokk	Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Skotland	11/26/1943	Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Skotland	10/14/1944
Andrew Buchanan	Great Britain	Messegutt	Glasgow	12/3/1943	Gourock	10/13/1944
Arne Kjøstvedt	Norway	ukjent	Unknown	12/28/1943	Unknown	5/23/1945
Emrys Jones	Great Britain	2. Telegrafist	Glasgow	12/30/1943	Gourock	6/18/1945
Einar Hilmar Hansen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Glasgow	1/4/1944	Reykjavik	9/18/1944
Johan Rauan	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	1/4/1944	Glasgow	10/13/1944
Nils Mariussen Vestlund	Norway	Fyrbøter	Glasgow	1/4/1944	Norge	7/4/1945
Alexander Hunter	Great Britain	ukjent	Glasgow	1/6/1944	Gourock	10/13/1944
Robert Colgan	Great Britain	Skytter	Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Skotland	1/11/1944	Gourock	10/13/1944
Mihai Petreciuk	Romania	Fyrbøter	New York	2/15/1944	Gourock	10/19/1944
Olav Marentius Holmgren	Norway	Matros	New York	2/16/1944	Reykjavik	9/24/1944
Tobias Hordvik	Norway	Smører	New York	2/16/1944	Reykjavik	9/11/1944
Norman Fred Cook	Canada	Messegutt	New York	2/18/1944	Reykjavik	8/21/1944
Henry Nicolay Johansen	Norway	Matros	New York	2/28/1944	Clyde	9/11/1944