Olaf Fostenes
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| Name | Olaf Fostenes | ||
| Type: | Motor merchant | ||
| Tonnage | 2,994 tons | ||
| Completed | 1936 - Helsingørs Jernskibs-og Maskinbyggeri A/S, Elsinore | ||
| Owner | Lars Fostenes Rederi A/S, Haugesund | ||
| Homeport | Haugesund | ||
| Date of attack | 18 Sep 1942 | Nationality:  Norwegian | |
| Fate | Sunk by U-380 (Josef Röther) | ||
| Position | 44.56N, 41.05W - Grid BC 9277 - See location on a map - | ||
| Complement | 36 (0 dead and 36 survivors). | ||
| Convoy | |||
| Route | Liverpool (12 Sep) - Halifax | ||
| Cargo | Ballast | ||
| History | Completed in November 1936 On 31 Aug, 1940, the Olaf Fostenes (Master Valvatne) rescued 251 survivors from the Volendam, which had been torpedoed by U-60 (Schnee). Many of the survivors were women and children being evacuated to Canada, they were landed at Greenock on 1 September. | ||
| Notes on loss | At 09.21 hours on 18 Sep, 1942, the unescorted Olaf Fostenes (Master Axel Lindahl) was hit by one of two torpedoes from U-380 on starboard between hold #1 and #2 and sank by the bow after being hit on port side in the engine room by a coup de grâce at 11.20 hours. The master, 32 crew members and three gunners abandoned ship in two lifeboats and were questioned by the Germans who asked for the master but they were told that he had been lost. The survivors set sail for Newfoundland and were located by an aircraft on 26 September. Shortly thereafter picked up by HMS Firedrake (H 79) (Cdr E.H. Tilden, DSC, RN) and taken to St. Johns. | ||
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