In December 1942, the German occupiers of France confiscated the ship. The new French owners renamed her Sinfra. In 1939 she was sold on to Cie Generale de Nav a Vapeur Cyprien Fabre of Marseille, France. Rederi Jamaica employed Sandhamn on trade lines abroad.
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The vessel was assigned the code letters SEVA. The ship's tonnage had been changed to 4,470 GRT (2,577 NRT, tonnage under deck: 3,979). The rebuilding was completed on 5 December 1934. Öresund Shipyard's work on rebuilding the ship was one of the largest hull repair jobs ever carried out in Sweden at the time. The repairs and rebuild work on the ship was carried out at Öresundsvarvet at Landskrona and entailed the replacement of 600 tons of steel and the complete disassembly and refurbishing of the ship's machinery. In 1934 the wreck of Fernglen was nevertheless sold to the Stockholm-based company Rederi A/B Jamaica, repaired and renamed Sandhamn. The refloated wreck was towed to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The damage caused by the grounding was such that the ship was considered beyond economic repair. The necessity of discharging her cargo by hand was the main factor in the delay in refloating her. Fernglen was refloated on 8 November and taken in to Ras Alula, Italian Somaliland for examination. The British tug Protector was sent from Suez, Egypt on 22 August to assist Preserver. The British tug Preserver and the Dutch passenger ship Christiaan Huygens went to her aid. On 13 August 1933, she ran aground 30 nautical miles (56 km) south of Cape Guardafui, Italian Somaliland whilst on a voyage from Macassar, Netherlands East Indies to Aarhus, Denmark with a load of 7,422 tons of copra. The Fern Line ships were employed primarily in liner trade, carrying phosphate and cotton to Japan, then sailing from the Philippines to the United States with cargoes of copra. įernglen was one of nine ships belonging to Fearnley & Eger that formed the "Fern Line". cargo ship Borgå undergoing maintenance in the neighbouring floating dry dock at Akers Mekaniske Verksted. Verksted portrays Fernglen under construction, as well as the Fred. The maritime painting To skip i flytedokk ved Akers Mek. While Fernglen was under construction, Norwegian painter Thorolf Holmboe visited the shipyard and painted the scene. The ship was assigned the code letters LHKB. She was built for A/S Glittre of Oslo, Norway (a subsidiary of the shipping company Fearnley & Eger). History įernglen being launched at Akers Mekaniske Verksted in 1929įernglen was launched on, and completed in July of the same year.
Each of the engines, also built by Akers Mekaniske Verksted, powered a screw propeller. The ship was propelled by two 6-cylinder 4S.C.SA diesel engines with a combined total of 624 horsepower (465 kW), which gave her a top speed of 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h). She had electric lighting, wireless telegraph and two decks. The ship was 117.4 metres (385 ft) long, with a beam of 16.7 metres (55 ft) and a depth of 7 metres (23 ft). The vessel was a 4,444 GRT (2,669 NRT, 8,190 DWT, tonnage under deck: 3,992) steel-hulled cargo ship, built in 1929 by the shipyard Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, as Fernglen. Around 2,000 people were killed in the sinking, the majority being Italian POWs.
On 19 October 1943, Sinfra was bombed and sunk by Allied aircraft north of Souda Bay, Crete. Sinfra was confiscated by German authorities in 1942, and used by them in the Mediterranean. The ship was sold to Swedish owners in 1934 and to a French company in 1939, on the last occasion having her name changed to Sinfra. Sinfra was a cargo ship built in 1929 as Fernglen by Akers Mekaniske Verksted in Oslo, Norway, for a Norwegian shipping company. In recent years, Aagaard's work has sold at auction between $438USD for 'Ångare', and $11,929USD for 'Norske Båter Langs Kysten'.2 6-cylinder 4S.C.SA diesel engines, twin screw propellers He died during 1913 at Kristiania, Norway
His work is on public display at the Bergen Maritime Museum, Nordmøre Museum, and Trondheim Maritime Museum among other locations. In 1909, Aagaard was in Trondheim, where he painted a large painting from the harbor featuring pleasure crafts.
Several of his paintings were executed in large dimensions. He exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1900). He exhibited his works from 1898 in Bergen. He spent time researching locations in Lofoten and Finnmark. He was a student of Harriet Backer and Knud Bergslien, and he apprenticed for a time with Christian Krohg. He was educated at Trondheim Technical School and the Royal Drawing School (now Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry) in Oslo. Zackarias Martini Aagaard was born in Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. Zacharias Martin Aagaard (13 October 1863 – 6 December 1913) was a Norwegian painter who specialized in marine painting.
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