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¾ Starboard bow view of S.S. HERVOR BRATT at Cardiff Docks.

Built in 1922 by Kockums Mechanical Engineering Ltd, Malmo as ss TYRA BRATT for the Baltic Sea S/s Ltd., (Adolf Bratt) Gothenburg. Following Adolf Bratt's death in 1934, his son Gustaf Adolf Bratt takes over the leadership of the company. 1940 - April 9 : TYRA BRATT was in Bergen (some sources say Haugesund), when the Germans occupied Norway. The ship was seized and a German crew took her over and brought her to Stavanger. The Swedish crew remained on board. 1940 - May 8 : The German commandant in Stavanger orders that she is to be brought to Germany in convoy with other ships. 1940 - May 11 : Most of the Swedish crew leave the ship. Some officers remain until the 16th when the vessel arrives in Germany, renamed NOGAT and put into German service . 1945 - The ship reverts to allied control. She is returned to her owners in May 1947. 1948 - February : Delivered to the AB Steamship Baltic and immediately renamed HERVOR BRATT. 1960 - October : Sold to Rederi AB Sea (T Christensen), Trelleborg, and renamed VIBEKE CHRISTENSEN. During the winter of 1962-63 the ship was ice-bound for two months in Vejle and on 1st April 1963, the shipping company went into liquidation and the ship put up for sale at Ystad, Sweden. 1963 - June 4 : Sold for 160,000 Krona at auction to Michael Hambury, Piraeus, Greece, renamed IRENE and left Ystad. 1964 - Sold to TD Athanassiades, Piraeus, Greece, and renamed first FLORA A, then FLORA ATHANASSIADES. 1966 - March : Sold to PJ Frangolis & D Gouzoulis, Piraeus, Greece. Renamed GIANNAKIS F. 1967 Feb 8th : An engine room fire breaks out in the morning while the ship is at anchor outside Laurium, Greece. In the afternoon the ship sank with no loss of life. In 1949 the Stornaway RNLI station was awarded a Plaque of Merit from the Swedish Lifeboat Society for the rescue of 20 men from the motor vessel HERVOR BRATT.