M/T Vanja

Call sign: LHQG - LDMR
Class: DNV 1A1 Tankskip for Oljelast
Shipping company: Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen, Kristiania / Oslo
Nationality: Norway
Home port: Oslo
Enlistment district: Oslo

Shipyard

Name: Gøtaverken Mek. Verk., Gøteborg, Sverige
Build year: 1929
Yard number: 424
Month of delivery: November

Other

Participant in WW2
Civilian ship

Tonnage

Gross tonnage:: 6.198
Net tonnage:: 3.663
Deadweight:: 9.580

Engine

Propulsion:: B & W
Engine size:: BHK 2125 NHK 481
Speed:: 10

Dimensions

Length:: 408.30'
Beam:: 55.30'
Draft:: 32.30'

Miscellaneous

Crew list

Seafarer	Nationality	Position	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position	Harbour	Date	Harbour	Date
Erling Skjelnes	Norway	Matros	New York	8/29/1945	Montevideo	3/29/1946
Johan Olsson	Sweden	Matros	Baltimore	8/1/1945	Unknown	Unknown
Ottar Jonas Grotle	Norway	Matros	New York	6/13/1945	Unknown	6/28/1946
Kaare Aarseth	Norway	Matros	New Orleans	5/15/1945	Ardrossan	2/23/1946
Karl Johan Blindheim	Norway	Matros	New Orleans	5/15/1945	Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Skotland	2/27/1946
Johannes Iversen	Norway	Matros	New Orleans	5/15/1945	Galveston	9/30/1945
Karl Martin Olderøy	Norway	Matros	Baltimore	2/26/1945	Baltimore	7/19/1945
Sverre Johan Jegerstedt	Norway	Matros	New York	1/13/1945	Philadelphia	5/26/1945
Albert B. Pedersen	Denmark	Matros	Unknown	12/16/1944	Unknown	12/28/1944
George Howard Fitzsimmons	Australia	Matros	Corpus Christi	11/2/1944	Port Arthur	5/15/1945
Arnold Eriksen	Norway	Matros	Southend	10/4/1944	Baltimore	2/26/1945
Peder Mandius Olsen	Norway	Matros	New York	9/11/1944	Port Arthur	5/15/1945
Ottar Kristian Sedolf Hansen	Norway	Matros	New York	9/7/1944	Boston, Massachusetts	6/28/1946
Arne Thorleif Jensen	Norway	Matros	New York	9/7/1944	Boston, Massachusetts	3/19/1945
Knut Herre	Norway	Matros	New York	6/28/1944	New York	6/13/1945
Thorleif Larsen	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	6/5/1944	Baltimore	9/1/1945
Rolf Erling Hansen	Norway	Matros	Baltimore	4/25/1944	Unknown	1/18/1945
Henry Andreassen	Norway	Matros	Baltimore	4/24/1944	Corpus Christi	11/2/1944
John Harold Sandum	Norway	Matros	Baltimore	4/12/1944	Baltimore	5/3/1944
Elliot Hansen	Norway	Matros	Unknown	2/11/1944	Baltimore	4/11/1944
Øivind Peter Kristoffer Pettersen	Norway	Matros	Southend	11/11/1943	London	2/19/1944
Nils Arne Johansen	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	11/1/1943	Boston, Massachusetts	12/14/1943
Rolf Hansen	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	10/27/1943	New York	9/7/1944
Andreas Wilhelmsen	Norway	Matros	Glasgow	8/14/1943	Glasgow	11/1/1943
W. G. Howe	Great Britain	Matros	Halifax	7/29/1943	Grangemouth	8/16/1943