M/S Balla

Other names: ex Gresham, ex Margretian
Call sign: LJOY
Shipping company: Th. Brøvig, Farsund
Nationality: Norway
Home port: Farsund
Enlistment district: Farsund

Shipyard

Name: C. Hill & Sons Ltd., Bristol, UK
Build year: 1923
Yard number: 148
Month of delivery: november

Other

Participant in WW2
Civilian ship

Tonnage

Gross tonnage:: 2.565
Net tonnage:: 1.502
Deadweight:: 4.740

Engine

Propulsion:: Beardmore
Engine size:: NHK 370

Dimensions

Length:: 297.8'
Beam:: 43.9'
Draft:: 21.5'

Miscellaneous

Crew list

Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Harbour	Date	Harbour	Date
Antonio Miguel De Oliveira	Brazil	Messegutt	New York	8/12/1943	Baltimore	12/8/1943
Charles Griffith	USA	Messegutt	New Orleans	10/29/1941	Unknown	1/2/1942
Ivar Bergesen Tøsse	Norway	Messegutt	New York	11/1/1940	Unknown	8/31/1941
Bernt Otto Abrahamsen	Norway	Messegutt	New York	2/18/1940	New York	5/14/1940
John Edgar Street	Canada	Messemann	New York	8/7/1944	Boston, Massachusetts	10/14/1944
Jessie Alvin Pennington	USA	Messemann	New Orleans	4/25/1944	New York	5/27/1944
Jose Francisco de Oliveira	Brazil	Messemann	New York	2/9/1944	New York	4/3/1944
Oscar Ingvald Johan Lie Abrahamsen	Norway	Motormann	Unknown	Unknown	New York	11/4/1940
Ingar Jørgen Johansen	Norway	Motormann	Unknown	6/25/1946	Unknown	1/31/1947
Birger Alexander Olsen	Norway	Motormann	Unknown	3/16/1946	Unknown	4/2/1946
Karl August Sørensen	Norway	Motormann	New York	2/1946	New Orleans	3/1946
Jan Harry Andersen	Norway	Motormann	New York	1/31/1946	Unknown	Unknown
Isak Persen Bjorbekk	Norway	Motormann	Unknown	1/31/1946	Unknown	Unknown
Erik Kristian Albrektsen	Norway	Motormann	New Orleans	10/10/1945	New York	1/25/1946
Erik Ferdinand Jansen	Norway	Motormann	New Orleans	8/29/1945	New York	1/30/1946
Erling Greyborn	Norway	Motormann	New Orleans	8/22/1945	Unknown	10/11/1945
Kåre Lyder Iversen	Norway	Motormann	New Orleans	8/21/1945	New Orleans	3/6/1946
Oskar Thorleif Buli	Norway	Motormann	Unknown	6/11/1945	Unknown	10/20/1945
Anders Henry Paulsen	Norway	Motormann	New York	6/5/1945	Baltimore	10/22/1945
Sverre Torstein Sigurdsen Myrvold	Norway	Motormann	New York	3/28/1945	New York	6/12/1945
John Wilken	Great Britain	Motormann	New York	3/15/1945	New York	3/27/1945
Lars Hendrik Kvalem	Norway	Motormann	New Orleans	11/15/1944	Boston, Massachusetts	3/27/1945
Trygve Ewald Olsen	Norway	Motormann	New York	10/13/1944	New Orleans	7/13/1945
Samuel Arnt Danielsen	Norway	Motormann	New York	8/7/1944	New York	3/15/1945
Johannes Konrad Larsen	Norway	Motormann	Santiago	7/10/1944	New Orleans	8/21/1945