Norwegian whale factory ship Kosmos 1929-1940

'Kosmos', Norwegian whaling ship in Wellington harbour, 1929, Wellington, by Roland Searle. Purchased 1999 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds. Te Papa (A.019123)

Completed by Workman, Clark&Co. Ltd., Belfast, North Ireland with yard number 505 in July 1929 and sunk by the German commerce raider Thor on 26 September 1940 around 200 miles south east of Ascension Island underway from Walvis Bay, South Africa towards Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Owner Anders Jahre-Hvalfangerselskapet Kosmos A/S, Sandefjord, Norway. Call sign LHKG. Gross register tonnage 7,801 tons, under deck 16,533 tons and net tonnage 11,789 tons and as dimensions 168.9 x 23.5 x 15.1 metres or 554.1 x 77.2 x 49.6 feet. Crew numbered 78 men. Horsepower 988 hp allowing a speed of 13 knots.