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	Signed on		Signed off
Seafarer	Nationality	Position	Harbour 🠗₁	Date	Harbour	Date
Josuv Milianckas	Lithuania	ukjent	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	8/12/1944	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/7/1945
Robert Alexander	New Zealand	Matros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	7/21/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	4/9/1945
Karluf Thoresen	Norway	ukjent	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	7/20/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	4/24/1945
Fritjof Jensen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/30/1944	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	8/11/1944
Aage Sande	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/30/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	10/22/1944
Arne Kristoffer Sørensen	Norway	Tømmermann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/30/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	10/10/1945
C. R. Smith	Great Britain	Skytter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	1/19/1944	Hull, Yorkshire, England	5/24/1944
Johannes Ervik	Norway	Tømmermann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	12/29/1943	Hull, Yorkshire, England	6/30/1944
Robert Eugen Bergmann	Norway	ukjent	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	11/13/1943	Bristol, Gloucestershire, England	4/21/1944
A. Nuttall	Great Britain	Skytter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/29/1943	London	1/11/1944
William Connolly	Great Britain	Messegutt	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/27/1943	Liverpool	5/4/1944
Toralv Ingvald Berntsen	Norway	Matros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/12/1943	Liverpool	5/4/1944
Emil Johan Gabriel Blomberg	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	9/6/1943	London	3/17/1944
Ronald Mitchell	Great Britain	Smører	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	8/24/1943	Liverpool	5/4/1944
Rolf Eliot Johansen	Norway	Kokk	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/16/1943	London	8/9/1943
John Simpson	Great Britain	3. Telegrafist	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	6/16/1943	Blyth	9/3/1943
Harald Josef Halvorsen	Norway	2. Maskinist	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/12/1943	Hull, Yorkshire, England	10/13/1945
Hans Kristiansen	Norway	Matros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	4/12/1943	Liverpool	7/24/1943
Bernt Nilsen Dale	Norway	Matros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/30/1943	River Tyne	10/9/1943
John McQueen	Great Britain	Jungmann	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/30/1943	London	8/17/1943
John James Pearson	Great Britain	Trimmer	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/30/1943	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	10/23/1943
Thomas Robert Craig	Great Britain	Lettmatros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/29/1943	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England	5/3/1943
Tørner Magnus Kristiansen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/16/1943	Liverpool	7/24/1943
Hans Theodor Hennum	Norway	Matros	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/2/1943	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/29/1943
Wiliam H. Harrison	Great Britain	Trimmer	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	2/20/1943	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England	3/31/1943