Dias

mar 1, 2012 | Grytviken, Huseby, Hvalbåter/Catchers

Selfangstbåten Dias i Grytviken.

Built by Cook, Welton & Gemmel at Beverly, launched 17 January 1906 for the Hellyer Steam Fishing Company of Hull; port number H.868.
Requistioned by Royal Navy in September 1914, fitted as a minesweeper, based at Lerwick, Shetland. Returned to Hellyer in 1919 but then sold to L. Thorsen of Sandefjord and renamed ‘Kapduen’, and passed to A/S Sandefjord Trawlfiskeselskap.
In 1922 acquired by Nils Torvald Nielsen-Alonso and converted to a whaler. Worked in the South Atlantic, based at Angola.
In 1924 sold to A/S South Atlantic of Tonsberg and renamed ‘Dias’ but laid up at Sandefjord.
In 1927 sold to Lars Klaveness, agent for Compania Argentina de Pesca Sociedad Anonima (‘Pesca’ for short),and reregistered in Buenos Aires, she was based at Grytviken, South Georgia, and used as a sealer, with a mixed crew of Norwegians and Argentinians.
In 1960 she again became British, being sold to the Albion Star company, registered in the Falkland Islands. The crew at this time was a mix of Japanese and Norwegians – the skipper being Gunnar Virik Nilsen. The ship was laid up at South Georgia in December 1964…..she is still there, although now sunk in shallow water at Grytviken.

Mariner’s Mirror, August 2003; vol.69/no.3

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