MV Falkefjell (1931)

Falkefjell was an 8,072 tons motor vessel built by Kockums, Sweden in 1931 for AB Falkefjell.

Falkefjell c.1940
History
Name: Falkefjell
Owner: A/S Falkefjell, Oslo
Builder: Kockums, Sweden
Launched: 1931
Fate: Broken up in 1957.
General characteristics
Length: 461.6 ft (140.7 m)[1]
Beam: 59.8 ft (18.2 m)
Draught: 34.6 ft (10.5 m)
Speed: 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)

Operational history

Falkefjell was chartered to the Anglo-Saxon Company and was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and loaned to the Royal Australian Navy as a fleet oiler in December 1941. She was returned to the Admiralty in April 1942.

Fate

Renamed Uarda in 1957, she arrived at Hong Kong on 5 December to be broken up.

Notes

  1. "Lloyd's Register 1940-41" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
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