Nya Ångbåts AB Bohuslänska Kusten
AB Skeppsservice
 Knud Nordendorph
 		  
ALFHEM (1953 - 1960)

Build: 1930 at Odense Staalskibsværft A/S, Odense, Denmark. #  36
Launched: 25/2 1930.
Tonnage: 4.847 grt, 2.781 nrt, 8.460 dwt. 
Dim: 116,49 x 16,51 x 8,54 m. 
Engine: 2 Oil 2SA 6-cyl., B&W 
Swedish off.no: 9439
IMO: 

1930: Delivered as GULDBORG to D/S Dannebrog (C K Hansen), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Aug.1933: Sold to P/R Leif Høegh & Co, Oslo, Norway and renamed HÖEGH TRADER.
Dec.1935: Sold to Skips A/S Gausdal (Boe & Pedersen), Oslo, Norway and renamed GAUSDAL.
Sept.1953: Sold to Nya Ångbåts AB Bohuslänska Kusten, Uddevalla Sweden and renamed ALFHEM.
The ALFHEM became famous when she was used to transport a large quantity of Czechoslovak arms and ammunition to the Arbenz government of Guatemala in May 1954. The weapons had been loaded onto the ALFHEM in the Baltic port of Szczecin,  Poland. The ship then followed a zig-zag course sailing first towards Dakar in French West Africa, then heading for Curaçao, later being re-directed to Puerto Cortes, Honduras, until finally a radio message to the captain revealed her true destination to be Puerto Barrios in Guatemala. She docked at Puerto Barrios, 297 kilometers northwest of Guatemala City, on 15 May 1954. See here: http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs.asp?doc_no=0000934523&no_pages=0027&showPage=0001. ALFHEM was by this time Managed by AB Navigator (Alfred Christensen), Stockholm
Jan.1960: Sold to N.A. Valmas, Piraeus, Greece and renamed ANTONIOS V.
1960: Transferred to Libanon flag register.
1961: Sold to Sangyo Shinko K.K. to be broken up.

 
ALFHEM
BYFJORDEN (1956 - 1965)

Build: 1956 at Donsö Varv, Slip & M.V., Donsö, Sweden. # ?
Tonnage: 195 grt, 83 nrt 
Dim:  
Engine: Oil 2SA 5-cyl., Alpha -Diesel 
Swedish off.no: 9663 
IMO: 5056133.

April 1956: Delivered as BYFJORDEN to AB Skeppsservice (Knud Nordendorph), Uddevalla, Sweden.
1957: Lengthened. (new Tonnage: 238 grt, 125 nrt, 270 dwt. Dim: 44,47 x 6,52 x 2,62 m).
Nov.1965: Sold to Partrederiet Terningen, Hestvika, Norway and renamed TERNINGEN.
2/11 1975: Laid up at Fredrikstad, Norway.
15/4 1978: Deleted from Lloyds Register.
 

  
LILL-PIA (1950 - 1965)

Build: 1921 at Friedr. Krupp AG Germaniawerft, Kiel as a motor-galeas. # 402
Launched: Sept. 1920.
Tonnage: 83 grt, 45 nrt.
Dim: 24,1 x 5,62 x 2,0 m.
Engine: 65 bhp
Swedish off.no: 8010
IMO:

15/10 1921: Delivered to R N Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Denmark as ANNA.
30/3 1935: Sold to A.J. Assmundsen, Egernsund, Denmark
18/4 1935: Sold to Red AB Hamra, Stockholm, Sweden and renamed SIRI.
24/7 1944: Sold to Sture Julius Mattsson, Slite, Sweden.
2/4 1949: Sold to Rederi AB Ankaret, Slite, Sweden.
18/7 1950: Sold to AB Rivö, Goteborg, Sweden.
8/9 1950: Sold to Nya Ångbåts AB Bohusländska Kusten, Uddevalla, Sweden and renamed LILL-PIA.
23/12 1954: Transferred to AB Skeppsservice, Uddevalla, Sweden.
6/6 1957: Transferred to AB Charles Thorburn & Co., Uddevalla, Sweden
30/3 1965: Sold to Tor Aste Erland Johansson, Klädesholmen, Sweden.
5/10 1966: Sold to Grels Anders Ekström, Stockholm, Sweden and renamed ANNA.
19/12 1966: Departured Goteborg  for Caribian
13/9 1970: ANNA, Now registered at Trinidad, sunk  off Union Island, Grenadines when on a voyage Puerto la Cruz,  Venezuela to the island of Mustique, South of St. Vincent with a cargo of 106 tons of Cement. The crew was saved
 
LILL-PIA

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