S/S Montrose
Panama |
S/S Montrose wrecked in Skovfjord 6.7.1942.
Passenger and Cargo Ships Taken Over by U.S Maritime Commission during World War II On June 6, 1941 there were 84 voluntarily inactive large ships of foreign registry in American ports. The Ship Requisition Act signed on that day allowed the Coast Guard to seize these vessels for the war effort. (Incl. 40 Danish vessels). Representatives of the friendly governments under which some these vessels were previously registered cooperated with the War Department. In many cases, crew members of other nationalities were kept on the vessels since they were familiar with the equipment, and there was a shortage of American seamen. |
Call sign |
Name |
Built |
Service |
Owner |
? |
Montrose |
1939 |
1941-1942 |
Marine Transport Co. Panama |
Philatelic cover canc. IVIGTUT
4.4.1942 to S.S. Montrose.
5.11.1941: S/S Montrose rammed oiler USS Laramie (AO 16) in Tunugdliarfik Fjord during stormy weather. Suffers no damage in the accidental encounter. 1.3.-25.5.1942-: Narsarssuaq (BW1) 3.6.1942: S/S Montrose run aground on Moratties Reef near Argentia. USCG Cutter Tampa, assisted by two naval vessels, soon floated the merchantman free. Continued her escort mission, routed onward to Greenland. Arriving at Sondre Stromfjord on the 10th June 1942. 6.7.1942: S/S Montrose hit a submerged rock while navigating the poorly charted waters in Skovfjord southwest of the airbase while sailing from Ivigtut to Narsarssuaq (BW1). The wreck later called "The sunken ship" became an essential marker used by pilots approaching Bluie West 1.
6.9.1942: S/S Harjurand
begin salvage work on the SS
Montrose. |
S/S Herta Mærsk before the
vessel was seized by U.S. Coast Guard in June 1941.
Air mail from Marstal, Denmark
via Lisbon, Portugal to S/S Herta Mærsk in US.
Opened by German censor in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Ship |
Postmark |
Date |
Sender |
Note | |
Herta Mærsk | Skagen | 4.7.1940 |
Incomming to: Matros Knud Jensen S/S Herta Mærsk Battery Warf Boston, USA |
PR |
"Italien-USA by air mail via New York" |
Herta Mærsk |
Marstal |
23.3.1941 |
Incomming
to: |
PR |
|
Montrose |
Ivigtut | 4.4.1942 | Incomming
to: Mr. K. Bothe S/S Montrose Marine Transport Lines Inc 11 Broadway, N.Y. |
QXL |
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