Tankskipet Malmanger ble bygget om til bulk. A Duncan
Rederiets första nybygge på tanksidan fick 1950 namnet H Westfal-Larsen efter grundläggaren. Foto: Alex Duncan.
Converted to bulkcarrier in Sunderland UK.
B.nr 317 Risanger (på bild som omdöpt till Rytterfjell)
Photographer: Chris Howell
Cargo ship Yat Shing as shown while anchored off Singapore in February 1979. Built at Kockums, Malmö in 1950 as the Norwegian-flag Westfal-Larsen & Co freighter Moldang
Year: 1950. Name: Beranger. Flag: NOR.
Builder: Kockums MV, Malmö – Subsequent history: 69 Shansi – 77 Yat Lee. (sailed Hong Kong for Shanghai 25.4.78)
11 personer omkom den 27 april 1941 när Rimfaxe torpederades och sjönk:
Rimfakes SS. Built by Kockums mek. Verkstads A/B, Malmö, Sweden, delivered in March-1921 as Rimfakse to D/S A/S Ringhorn (Albert Schjelderup), Bergen. 235.5′ x 37,7′ x 16,5′, Triple exp. (Kockum), 160 nhp.
Rimfaxe left Blyth on April 20th 1941 with a cargo of 1900 tons coal for Patricksfjord, Iceland, sailing in convoy to Loch Ewe, then departed alone on April 25th 1941. At 01:50 on the 27:th shw was struck in the after part of No.
2 hatch, port side, by a torpedo from U-147, Capt. Eberhard Wetjen had just taken over the command that month, previously commanded by Reinhard Hardegen, position 60 10N 08 54W (about 130 n. miles northwest of Scotland).
From Bjorn Mildo’s postcard collection.
En notis om Brages försvinnande:
SS Brage
On february 21st, 1914, the Norwegian vessel SS Brage, owned at the time of her loss by Olsen C. A., Tvedestrand, departed Kristiansand for Methill in ballast and foundered. The whole crew, 12 hands in total, was lost.
From Norway sources: