MV Aase Maersk (1930)
_(7312743392).jpg) Aase Mærsk | |
| History | |
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 Denmark | |
| Name: | Aase Mærsk |
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| Operator: |
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| Port of registry: |
 Belfast (1940) |
| Builder: | Odense Steel Shipyard, Odense, Denmark |
| Launched: | 1930 |
| Completed: | September 1930 |
| Identification: |
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| Status: | Scrapped in 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
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| Length: | 407.1 feet (124.1 m) p/p |
| Beam: | 54.9 feet (16.7 m) |
| Draught: | 26 feet 10 1⁄4 inches (8.19 m) |
| Depth: | 30.4 feet (9.3 m) |
| Installed power: | 489 NHP |
| Propulsion: | 6-cylinder 4-stroke single-acting marine diesel engine |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Sensors and processing systems: | wireless direction finding |
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.[1]
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.[1] 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.
Notes
- 1 2 Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships (PDF). Lloyd's Register. 1940. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
References
- Wilson, Michael. Royal Australian Navy 21st Century Warships, Naval auxiliaries 1911 to 1999 including Defence Maritime Services. Profile No. 4 (Revised ed.). Marrickville: Topmill Pty Ltd. ISBN 978-1-876270-72-8.
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