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Built by: Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw, Amsterdam Completed: 1928
Manager: Westfal-Larsen & Co, A/S, Bergen
Tonnage: 9,551 grt, 15,530 dwt
Length: 474.4 feet
Beam: 64.5 feet
Draught: 36.5 feet
Machinery: 2 x 12 cylinder diesel engines
Speed: 11 knots
In Admiralty Service (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) from 1941
The ship sailed from the Clyde on 14 February 1942 to join convoy ON.67, Liverpool to Halifax. Finnanger was torpedoed by U 158 ( Korvettan Luitenant Erwin Rostin) at 11.33 hrs on the 3rd March 1942, in position 38º 40’ N 58º 38’ W and sank after4 hours and 45 minutes with the loss of the entire crew of 35 Norwegian, 3 British and 1 Canadian seamen.
One of those lost - Galley Boy Bernard Stevens is remembered with pride on the Tower Hill memorial - panel 49 and one other Colour Sergeant William Thomas Whitmore, Royal Marines is remembered with pride on the Chatham Naval Memorial |
