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MV Falkefjell (1931)

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Name
  
Falkefjell

Builder
  
Kockums, Sweden

Beam
  
59.8 ft (18.2 m)

Launched
  
1931

Draft
  
11 m

Owner
  
A/S Falkefjell, Oslo

Fate
  
Broken up in 1957.

Draught
  
34.6 ft (10.5 m)

Length
  
141 m

MV Falkefjell (1931)

Falkefjell was an 8,072 tons motor vessel built by Kockums, Sweden in 1931 for AB Falkefjell.

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Operational history

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 oiler in December 1941. She was returned to the Admiralty in April 1942.

Fate

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

References

MV Falkefjell (1931) Wikipedia