MV Aase Maersk (1930)

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]

Aase Mærsk
History
Denmark
Name:	Aase Mærsk
Owner:	Mærsk Line (1930–40, 1945–60) Ministry of War Transport (1940–)
Operator:	Mærsk Line (1930–40, 1945–60) CT Bowring & Co (1940–)
Port of registry:	Belfast (1940)
Builder:	Odense Steel Shipyard, Odense, Denmark
Launched:	1930
Completed:	September 1930
Identification:	UK official number 174208 call sign BFXW
Status:	Scrapped in 1960
General characteristics
Tonnage:	6,814 GRT tonnage under deck 5,505 3,641 NRT
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

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. 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.