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
Karl Johan Andersen	Norway	Stuert	Oslo	7/15/1947	Sharpness	10/14/1949
John Knutsen Sollid	Norway	1. Styrmann	Oslo	9/2/1939	London	2/8/1941
Arne Gerhardt Gjøs Hansen	Norway	Skipsfører	Oslo	6/12/1937	United Kingdom (UK)	3/1/1941
Oscar Bengtson	Norway	ukjent	Oslo	6/28/1935	Sarpsborg	12/13/1935
Wilhelm Kristian Abrahamsen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Oslo	6/19/1925	Oslo	7/17/1925
Anton Back	Finland	Båtsmann	Philadelphia	6/19/1940	Unknown	Unknown
Patrick Ryan	USA	Matros	Philadelphia	6/19/1940	Alliert havn	5/20/1941
Ivar Arvid Larsen	Norway	Matros	Philadelphia	2/1940	Philadelphia	4/1940
Ole Johannessen	Norway	1. Kokk	Philadelphia	2/13/1940	Philadelphia	6/11/1940
Kurt Olsen	Norway	Kokk	Philadelphia	2/13/1940	Sydney	5/26/1941
Harald Kristian Andersen	Norway	Tømmermann	Philadelphia	1/16/1940	Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England	7/16/1941
Leif Sømøe	Norway	1. Styrmann / Telegrafist	Philadelphia	7/16/1939	Philadelphia	10/11/1939
Hjalmar Johan Johansen Hodneland	Norway	Fyrbøter	Reykjavik	10/7/1940	Blyth	4/7/1941
John Aleksander Børresen	Norway	Fyrbøter	Reykjavik	10/5/1940	Reykjavik	9/18/1941
Frank Bjarne Andersen	Norway	Lettmatros	Risør	11/23/1947	Unknown	Unknown
Ole Ragnhard Eriksen	Norway	Stuert	River Tyne	8/11/1944	Mosjøen	9/5/1945
John Cooper	Great Britain	2. Telegrafist	River Tyne	6/16/1943	Southampton	6/22/1944
James C. McDonald	Great Britain	Sjømann	River Tyne	6/16/1943	Liverpool	7/28/1943
Morten Andreas Monsen Høylandskjær	Norway	Donkeymann	River Tyne	1/21/1943	Bergen	11/1/1945
Rolf Peter Wessel Nielsen	Norway	3. Maskinist	River Tyne	12/8/1942	Bodø	10/23/1945
Johan Oscar Flodin	Norway	Lemper / Fyrbøter	River Tyne	2/9/1942	Southend	3/24/1942
Olaf Eugen Jensen	Norway	Smører	Rotterdam	5/11/1938	Tønsberg	2/25/1939
Alf Magnus Thørngren	Norway	ukjent	Sarpsborg	1/12/1946	Unknown	Unknown
Peder Emanuel Bekkvik	Norway	Matros	Sarpsborg	2/28/1936	New Orleans	9/12/1936
Ole Peder Nielsen	Norway	2. Styrmann	Sarpsborg	2/28/1936	New Orleans	9/14/1936