Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 824 by Armstrong-Whitworth,& Co. Ltd. New Castle for A/S Maritim (AF Klaveness & Co.), Oslo.
04 October 1910 launched as the STORSTAD.
Tonnage 6,028 grt, 3,561 nrt, dim. 134.1 (bpp) x 17.7 x 7.5m. (draught)
One triple expansion 3-cyl steam engine, manufactured by North-Eastern-Marine-Engineering Co. Ltd, Wallsend, 447 nhp, speed?
January 1911 completed.
Used as a tramp vessel by the owner loading all kinds of cargo they could find.
29 May 1914 when running in a thick fog bank on the St Lawrence River loaded with a cargo of coal under command of Captain Thomas Andersen bound for Quebec she collided with the Canadian passenger ship EMPRESS OF IRELAND. The accident is given on the site: http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... f=2&t=9402
The STORSTAD took part in the rescue, her boats picked up many survivors and thereafter she steamed up-streams to Quebec to discharge her cargo of coal. On arrival in Quebec she was arrested.
1915 Transferred to Klaveness D/S A/S, Oslo and after repair again in service.
08 March 1917 on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Rotterdam chartered by the Red Cross and loaded with maize for the Belgium Relief Fund she came under fire and later torpedoed by the German submarine U-62 under command of Captain Ernst Hashagen. The crew of the STORSTAD abandoned the vessel in the lifeboats, and the STORSTAD sunk in position 51 20N 11 50W off the south west coast of Ireland. The crew of the STORSTAD survived.
Canada 2014 $2.50 sg?, scott? (She is the vessel on the left of the stamp.)
Source: Various internet sites