D/S Bestum

Other names: ex Hessa
Call sign: WMRH - MTWQ - LEGA
Class: DNV1A1
Shipping company: Knut Th. Einersen, Kristiania / Oslo
Otto Chr. Bøhme, Oslo
Nationality: Norway
Home port: Oslo
Enlistment district: Oslo

Shipyard

Name: Dominion Ship Building Co., Ltd., Toronto, Canada
Build year: 1919
Yard number: 5
Month of delivery: Oktober

Maritime inquiries 1940 - 1945

Flyangrep

Other

Participant in WW2
Civilian ship

Tonnage

Gross tonnage:: 2.215
Net tonnage:: 1.317
Deadweight:: 3.600

Engine

Propulsion:: Triple 3 cyl.
Engine size:: NHK 320
Speed:: 9

Dimensions

Length:: 251.6'
Beam:: 43.9'
Draft:: 22.3'

Miscellaneous

Crew list

Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position 🠗₁	Harbour	Date	Harbour	Date
V. Anton Kyto	Finland	Båtsmann	Unknown	10/15/1941	Unknown	Unknown
Anton Back	Finland	Båtsmann	Philadelphia	6/19/1940	Unknown	Unknown
Åge Feldhausen	Denmark	Båtsmann	Unknown	4/30/1940	Unknown	6/17/1940
John Briggs	Great Britain	Dekksgutt	London	5/18/1942	London	9/1/1942
Leslie Lancaster	Great Britain	Dekksgutt	Gravesend	1/29/1942	Gravesend	5/18/1942
Finn Roger Wangberg	Norway	Dekksgutt	Ommønstring	8/28/1938	Unknown	Unknown
Ole Thorvald Martin Rolfsen	Norway	Dekksgutt	Bergen	4/16/1925	Hamburg	5/14/1926
Morten Andreas Monsen Høylandskjær	Norway	Donkeymann	River Tyne	1/21/1943	Bergen	11/1/1945
Karl Karlsen	Norway	Donkeymann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	12/21/1942	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	1/22/1943
Einar Hartvig Johansen	Norway	Donkeymann	Unknown	4/4/1942	Unknown	5/14/1942
Bernt Berntsen Langøen	Norway	Donkeymann	London	1/27/1942	London	4/4/1942
Hans Haakonsen Gunnerød	Norway	Donkeymann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/31/1941	London	1/28/1942
Joakim Martinius Pettersen	Norway	Donkeymann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	7/15/1941	London	1/28/1942
Karl Martin Andreassen	Norway	Donkeymann	London	7/3/1941	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England	7/14/1941
Robert Jakobsen	Norway	Donkeymann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/4/1941	London	7/2/1941
Fritjof Svendsås	Norway	Donkeymann	Ålesund	9/8/1939	Bergen	11/20/1939
Knut Alexander Løvmo	Norway	Donkeymann	Ålesund	10/18/1938	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	5/11/1942
Karsten Torgersen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Unknown	9/6/1951	Unknown	Unknown
Erling Karlsen (Marksen)	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	8/21/1945	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/26/1945
Pentti A. Koivisto	Finland	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/8/1945	Unknown	6/13/1947
Johannes Fabian Eriksen Klingstrøm	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/7/1945	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/26/1945
Eker Neumann Audan	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	5/16/1945	Haugesund	6/4/1946
Karl Wiedemann	Norway	Fyrbøter	Hull, Yorkshire, England	5/16/1945	Haugesund	6/4/1946
Reidar Hjorth Johannessen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/25/1945	Rotterdam	8/26/1945
Emil Kristian Ingvald Berg	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/19/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	10/13/1944