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MV Falkefjell (1931)

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Swedish motorised water vessel
Falkefjell c.1940
History
NameFalkefjell
OwnerA/S Falkefjell, Oslo
BuilderKockums, Sweden
Launched1931
FateBroken up in 1957.
General characteristics
Length461.6 ft (140.7 m)
Beam59.8 ft (18.2 m)
Draught34.6 ft (10.5 m)
Speed11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)

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

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 replenishment oiler in December 1941. She was returned to the British 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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