An item reported that the Belgian shipping company Compagnie Maritime Belge bought the Norwegian tanker Ronald now used as a whaler, Owned by the company Hektor, managed by N. Brugge as shipping agent the firm Grisar&Marily, Antwerp, Belgium. Homeport was Tonsberg, Norway but usually Oslo, Norway. Owned by the company Hektor, managed by N. Brugge as shipping agent the firm Grisar&Marily, Antwerp, Belgium. Homeport was Tonsberg, Norway but usually Oslo, Norway. She was to be renamed Mafuta in Belgian service and to be used for the transport of palm oil from Congo towards Belgium. Deadweight 10.500 tons, gross tonnage 6.322 tons, net tonnage 3.663 tons and built by R. Duncan, Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1920. Was to be delivered in December to her new Belgian owner and in January was her first voyage towards Congo to be made.
