Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
by
Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902.
The flag was red with a white "C" in the middle, for the founder's family name:
Christensen (a picture of this flag can be viewed a
FOTW.
History
Stockard Steamship Corporation
Stockard Steamship Company of New York was the major agent of Ivaran for many years. Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company A/S Holter Sørensens.
In ''Merchant Ships'' (The Macmillan Company; 1944), E.C. Talbot-Booth shows the vessels ''Ivaran'' and ''Lise'' in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by F. J. N. Wedge in ''Brown’s Flags and Funnels'' (Brown, Son and Ferguson; 1951). Subsequently Ivarans appear to have re-established in Oslo under their own name.
*Stockard Steamship Corporation was active with
charter shipping with the
Maritime Commission
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and
War Shipping Administration
The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime Co ...
for
World War II
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. The ship was run by its Stockard Steamship Corporation crew and the
US Navy
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supplied
United States Navy Armed Guard
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s to man the deck guns and radio.
CP Ships
Ivaran Lines was bought by
CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...
in May 1998, being unprofitable at that time. The last Ivaran's chairman was Eirik Holter-Sorensen.
CP's Ivaran brand name was replaced by the ''
Lykes Lines
Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., also called Lykes Lines, was a cargo shipping company acting from the beginning of the 20th century to 2005 having its main business in the trade to and from the United States.
History
In 1898 the sons of Dr. Howell Tys ...
'' brand in 2000. By 2001
CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...
was the seventh largest carrier in the world.
When acquired by
CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...
, Ivaran Lines was operating the following services:
* U.S. East Coast to East Coast South America (with Columbus Line and Alianca)
* U.S. Gulf Coast to East Coast South America (with Grupo Libra and TMM)
* U.S. Gulf Coast to Central America and the Caribbean.
CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...
was bought out in late 2005 by
TUI AG
TUI Group is a German leisure, travel and tourism company. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to ...
and merged in mid-2006 in the
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company. Hapag-Lloyd was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and North German Lloyd.
History
The company was formed on September 1, 1 ...
organization.
International identifiers
SCAC Code: IVAU
BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU
Vessels
In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA:
* ''Salvador''
* ''Santa Fe''
* ''San Diego''
* ''San Clemente''
* ''San Lorenzo''
* ''San Miguel''
* ''San Nicolas''
* ''San Pedro''
* ''San Isidro''
* ''Santa Cruz''
* ''San Francisco'' (LPG)
* ''Santos''
* ''São Paulo''
* ''Savannah''
* ''San Luis''
* ''San Nicolas X''
* ''Santa Rosa''
* ''San Marino''
* ''San Martin''
* ''San Juan''
* ''Santa Catarina''
* ''San Antonio''
* ''Santa Margarita''
They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the ''Americana''.
In 1998, Ivaran Lines had a fleet of 13 container ships with a capacity between 563 and 1742 TEU.
Stockard Steamship World War II
Stockard Steamship operated for World War II ships:
Victory ship
The Victory ship was a class of cargo ship produced in large numbers by North American shipyards during World War II to replace losses caused by German submarines. They were a more modern design compared to the earlier Liberty ship, were slight ...
s
*
SS ''Attleboro Victory''
Liberty ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Though British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost construction. Mass ...
s
*SS ''Dan Beard''
*SS ''Daniel Chester French''
*SS ''Paul Chandler''
*SS ''Joseph C. Lincoln''
*SS ''John L. Elliott''
*SS ''John W. Garrett''
*
SS ''George R. Poole''
*SS ''Thomas Sinnickson'', sank July 7, 1943 torpedoed by ''U-185'' off Brazil
*SS ''William Crompton''
*SS ''Charles N. Cole''
*SS ''Jesse Cottrell''
*
SS ''W. S. Jennings''
*
SS ''Wendell L. Willkie''
*
SS ''Edgar E Clark''
*
SS ''John H. McIntosh''
Other
SS ''Coastal Sentry''
See also
*
CP Ships
CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...
*
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company. Hapag-Lloyd was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and North German Lloyd.
History
The company was formed on September 1, 1 ...
References
{{reflist
Other sources
* SECDatabase.com
CP SHIPS LTD, Form 6-K, Filing Date Sep 7, 2004
Locistics Management 01. May 1998
External links
(Collection of old company brochures)
IVARAN group on facebook(IVARAN group on Facebook)
Defunct shipping companies of Norway
Transport companies established in 1902
1902 establishments in Norway
Transport companies disestablished in 2005
2005 disestablishments in Norway