M/S Rio Branco

Other names: ex Boca Raton, ex Marie Horn
Call sign: LJHY
Class: DNV1A1
Shipping company: Øyvind Lorentzen, Oslo
Nationality: Norway
Home port: Oslo
Enlistment district: Oslo

Shipyard

Name: Fried. Krupp AG, Germaniawerft, Kiel, Tyskland
Build year: 1925
Yard number: 476
Month of delivery: mars

Other

Participant in WW2
Civilian ship

Tonnage

Gross tonnage:: 3.210
Net tonnage:: 1.858
Deadweight:: 4.520

Engine

Propulsion:: Krupp
Engine size:: BHK 1400
Speed:: 10 knop

Dimensions

Length:: 306.7'
Beam:: 47.7'
Draft:: 23.5'

Miscellaneous

Crew list

Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Harbour	Date	Harbour	Date
Sverre Osvald Ohrø	Norway	Matros	Oslo	9/21/1938	New York	10/30/1939
Alf Volan	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Port of Spain	5/14/1945	Unknown	Unknown
Willy Hartvik Hoff	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Port of Spain	10/29/1944	New York	12/18/1944
Willy Hartvik Hoff	Norway	Matros / Skytter	New York	8/15/1944	Unknown	9/7/1944
Alf Larsen	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Unknown	4/15/1944	Unknown	7/11/1945
Willy Hartvik Hoff	Norway	Matros / Skytter	New York	4/14/1944	New York	8/6/1944
Thoralf Røen	Norway	Matros / Skytter	New York	6/25/1943	Brasil	12/9/1943
Vendel Augen Åberg	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Alliert havn	6/25/1943	Alliert havn	7/31/1945
Bjarne Petter Larsen Nordhus	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Glasgow	11/4/1942	New York	6/12/1942
Thomas Bell	Great Britain	Matros / Skytter	Sydney	9/29/1942	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England	10/17/1942
William Fletcher	Great Britain	Matros / Skytter	Sydney	9/29/1942	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England	10/17/1942
Alf Bjørn Løken	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Alliert havn	8/7/1942	Alliert havn	8/14/1942
Olai Edgar Olsen Fjellheim	Norway	Matros / Skytter	Cardiff, Wales, UK	5/8/1942	Liverpool	8/8/1942
William Holterman Skagfjord	Iceland	Matros / Skytter	Halifax	11/25/1941	Southampton	8/7/1942
Fauriano S. Moraes	Brazil	Messegutt	Unknown	Unknown	Para	1/18/1944
Kjell Tjøstolvsen	Norway	Messegutt	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
John Stephen Hoek	Canada	Messegutt	Unknown	6/1/1945	Unknown	6/10/1945
Steven John Gousasky	Canada	Messegutt	New York	12/15/1944	Unknown	Unknown
Vernon Cheong (Cheung)	Great Britain	Messegutt	Trinidad	2/4/1944	Trinidad	7/20/1944
Lemiao Monturo	Portugal	Messegutt	Para	1/17/1944	New York	8/8/1944
Touriano M. Smith	Brazil	Messegutt	Para	11/30/1943	Unknown	Unknown
Marques Da Silva	Brazil	Messegutt	New York	6/18/1943	New York	11/30/1943
(Larry) Lawrence W. Stokaluk	Canada	Messegutt	St. John's	1/29/1943	Unknown	6/15/1943
Albert Rogers	Great Britain	Messegutt	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England	11/23/1942	St. John's	1/30/1943
Leonard Burchill	Great Britain	Messegutt	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England	11/10/1942	New York	10/18/1943