Name Aase Mærsk Completed September 1930 Length 124 m Draft 8.18 m | Port of registry Belfast (1940) Launched 1930 Depth 9.27 m Beam 17 m | |
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Owner Mærsk Line (1930–40, 1945–60)
Ministry of War Transport (1940–) Operator Mærsk Line (1930–40, 1945–60)
CT Bowring & Co (1940–) Identification UK official number 174208
call sign BFXW Builders Odense Steel Shipyard, Odense Municipality, Denmark | ||
MV Aase Maersk or Aase Mærsk was a Danish 6,184 GRT oil tanker. Odense Steel Shipyard of Odense built her in 1930 for A. P. Moller of Copenhagen. She was a motor ship, powered by a Burmeister & Wain six-cylinder four-stroke single-acting marine diesel engine developing 489 NHP.
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Second World War
In the Second World War the UK Ministry of War Transport took her over and appointed C.T. Bowring & Co to manage her. She served with the United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Navy. The Bathurst-class corvette HMAS Geelong collided with her on 11 November 1942. Aase Mærsk was returned to her owners in 1945.
Fate
Aase Mærsk was scrapped at Preston, Lancashire in December 1960.
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