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MV Falkefjell (1931)

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Falkefjell c.1940
History
NameFalkefjell
OwnerA/S Falkefjell, Oslo
BuilderKockums, Sweden
Launched1931
FateBroken up in 1957.
General characteristics
Length461.6 ft (140.7 m)[1]
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

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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

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Renamed Uarda in 1957, she arrived at Hong Kong on 5 December to be broken up.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Lloyd's Register 1940-41" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 9 September 2011.