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Call sign LDIB. Owner in 1939 Hvalfangstslsk Finnhval A/S and managers Yngvar Hvistendahl. Homeport Oslo, Norway. Launched by Harland&Wolff Ld., Belfast, Northern Ireland with yard number 333 on 17 March 1900, shipwrecked on the British south coast in 1907, broken into two parts was a new bow section connected to the saved stern section and completed in 1908, converted at Kiel, Germany into a whaling factory ship, interned at Gotenburg, Sweden in 1940, tried to escape on 31 March-1 April and scuttled by her own crew to prevent capture by the Germans on 1 April 1942. Gross tonnage 12,358 tons, under deck 9,045 tons, net tonnage 7,276 tons and as dimensions 550.0 x 63.3 x 39.9 feet.
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