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