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
Reginald Gettit	Great Britain	Hjelpegutt	London	7/24/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	10/26/1944
John McQueen	Great Britain	Jungmann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/30/1943	London	8/17/1943
Per Throndsen (Trandsen)	Norway	Jungmann	London	1/27/1942	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/4/1942
Roland Joseph Arsenault	Canada	Jungmann / Lettmatros	Unknown	5/15/1941	Unknown	7/9/1941
Jack Bennet	Great Britain	Kanoner	Unknown	4/15/1941	Unknown	7/14/1941
Arne Mauritz Hansen	Norway	Kokk	Hull, Yorkshire, England	5/1/1945	Sarpsborg	1/20/1946
Ingvald Bertil Jørgensen	Norway	Kokk	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	12/19/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	4/30/1945
Askell Eikemo	Norway	Kokk	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/21/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	1/2/1945
Rolf Wilhelm Kristensen	Norway	Kokk	London	8/9/1943	London	3/18/1944
Rolf Eliot Johansen	Norway	Kokk	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/16/1943	London	8/9/1943
Wilhelm Johan Marius Kraus	Norway	Kokk	London	12/14/1942	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/17/1943
Kornelius Andersen	Norway	Kokk	Unknown	8/1/1940	Unknown	8/27/1940
Kurt Olsen	Norway	Kokk	Philadelphia	2/13/1940	Sydney	5/26/1941
Robert Wilson	Great Britain	Lemper	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	11/2/1942	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	11/25/1942
William Brown		Lemper	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/15/1942	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/31/1942
Arne Geerth Køning Olsen	Norway	Lemper	Cardenas	5/1/1935	Unknown	6/30/1935
Johan Oscar Flodin	Norway	Lemper / Fyrbøter	River Tyne	2/9/1942	Southend	3/24/1942
Edvin Jacobsen	Norway	Lettmatros	Unknown	8/17/1954	Ommønstring	9/3/1954
Frank Bjarne Andersen	Norway	Lettmatros	Risør	11/23/1947	Unknown	Unknown
Leslie Gerhard Raistrick	Great Britain	Lettmatros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/24/1945	Hartlepool	6/20/1945
Thomas Robert Craig	Great Britain	Lettmatros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/29/1943	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England	5/3/1943
Erling Fenstad	Norway	Lettmatros	London	9/1/1942	London	11/21/1942
Sivert Kjønsvik	Norway	Lettmatros	London	10/6/1941	London	2/12/1942
Unto K. (Uhro) Sålvalainen (Saavolainen)	Finland	Lettmatros	Unknown	3/7/1941	Unknown	3/19/1941
Barney McEachern	Canada	Lettmatros	Sydney	11/29/1940	Unknown	Unknown