Name Vardaas Port of registry Arendal Launched 1931 | Owner Agdesidens Rederi A/S Type Oil tanker Weight 5.753 tons | |
Operator Agdesidens Rederi / Nortraship Fate Hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U-564 on 30 August 1942, and sunk the next day. | ||
MT Vardaas was a Norwegian oil tanker, built in 1931. It had a displacement of 12,683 DWT. Sailing for Arnt J. Mørland's shipping company and Nortraship, while on its way from Cape Town to Trinidad carrying dead freight, the ship was hit by a torpedo from the German submarine U-564 on 30 August 1942. All crew of 41 escaped in lifeboats and landed in Plymouth Bay, Tobago.
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