OLAFUR JOHANNESSEN
Shipbuildervessel built by
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)
Date15 August 1950
Object NameFISHING VESSEL
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 183 11/12' x breadth 30 1/12' x depth 16'
Gross Tonnage: 681 ton
Gross Tonnage: 681 ton
Object numberABDSHIP002517
Keywords
Yard Number: 825
I.M.O. Number: 5413692
Subsequent Names: OLAFUR JOHANNESSON (1951); SOROFOLD (1963)
Fate: Foundered, 37.01S - 73.12W. , 12 July 1993.
Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler (side) with a cruiser stern.
Owners:
1950: Built for the Icelandic Government, but transferred to commercial owners and renamed at registration.
1951: Owners Gylfi h/f, Vatneyri. Renamed OLAFUR JOHANNESSON.
1963: Owners Hans O Vindenes, Bergen, renamed SOROFOLD- used for purse seining.
General History:
01/02/1950: Keel laid on Berth No. 2
15/08/1950: Launched as ANDVARI. Named by Mrs Gerdar Johnannesson.
02/03/1951: Handed over.
Notes
Sister to HREFNA, Yard No. 824 & DROFN, Yard No. 826.
Built as ANDVARI but named as ULAFUR JOHANNESSON on Hall Russell ship plans. ANDVARI means breeze in Icelandic.
"Launched as the Andvari on 15/8/1950, named by Mrs Gerdar Johannesson"
Photographs include launch party, and following launch.
(Burntisland & Hall Russell Shipyard Journal, vol. 22, no. 1, (1951), p. 22.
Triple expansion steam engine, with superheated steam. Manufactured and installed by Hall Russells. Engine room auxiliaries are electrically driven, power supply is 3 diesel generators.
Steam by screw, inverted, surface condensing, triple expansion engine, 16½” x 28½” x 47” with 30” stroke, 1240 i.h.p., Hall, Russell Engine No. 4/48
Oil fired boiler & superheaters by Barclay Curle, No. S.B.48/10.
Boiler: 1 single boiler; heating area (ft^2) 4035; diameter 16' ; length 11' ; furnaces 3 Deighton section 45¾” dia. ; pressure (p.s.i.) 225
Propeller: 11’ 3” diameter, 4-bladed, solid, manganese bronze.
1967: Converted to motor.
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