MV Eidsvold (1934)

Career (Norway)
Name: Eidsvold
Owner: Skibs-A/S Eidsiva
Port of registry: London
Launched: 1934, Gothenburg
Fate: Torpedoed and sunk in 1942
General characteristics

Eidsvold was a 4,184-ton motor vessel built in 1934 at Gothenburg.[1]

Fate

Eidsvold was sunk by a torpedo from the Japanese submarine I-159 at Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island.[2] Her wreck was later towed to near Smith Point.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Eidsvold". Warsailors.com. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "Norwegian Ship Master Narrates War Ordeals, Townsville Daily Bulletin, Wednesday 20 February 1946, p.2.". Retrieved 1 March 2012.