SILVER WATER JUG 1 Pint from Liner OSLOFJORD shipwreck 1940

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This is for a Silver Plated Water Jug or Milk Jug which really has suffered very little damage and is very useable. The silver plate is really good but it does have a couple of small 'dinks' It has the shipping crest engraved on one side .It is rare to find tableware from this wreck in such good condition!! iT was recovered from the Norwegian/ American Line Liner OSLOFJORD which sunk in 1940 .It comes complete with a certificate of authenticity. MV Oslofjord Sunk 1940 This was an 18.673 ton five-deck trans-Atlantic passenger liner, able to carry 860 passengers and 310 crew, built 1938. Oil engines. 590ftx73ft. In ballast after refit as troopship, Liverpool to Newcastle. It was sunk: on the 1 December, 1940, when its back was broken by a German acoustic mine, and was subsequently beached close to Tynemouth where the salvors thought they might save her . This was all to no avail and she was smashed up in relatively shallow water . This is the largest shipwreck on the East coast. There is a huge amount of broken wreckage on sand seabed. The bow section points seaward.and the four diesel engines are laying clear of wreckage after inward collapse. Articles found include pewter, crested pottery, silver salvers and brass portholes The wreckage of the 5317-ton Greek steamer Eugenia Chandris lies in contact near the engine room after she struck the Oslofjord wreck and sunk on 15 March, 1943 NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN LINE The Early Years (1910 – 1919): Norwegian America Line (Den Norske Amerikalinje A/S) was formed in 1910, during a period of rapid growth in the Norwegian shipping industry. In 1911, orders for two 11000grt liners were placed with Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, for delivery in 1913. These became the Kristianiafjord (1) and Bergensfjord (1), which established the suffix "-fjord" in the NAL fleet. They were extremely successful, taking much traffic from the DFDS Scandinavian-America Line. A third ship was ordered from the same builders, but the war delayed delivery of Stavangerfjord until 1918. Kristianiafjord (1) was lost due to grounding in 1917. The Interwar Years (1919 - 1945): Following the First World War, NAL expanded rapidly with new cargo-liners constructed in the UK and Canada - by 1923 they had 19 vessels. In 1914, cargo ships were chartered to supply grain to Norway, which although a neutral country during the Great War, suffered from a lack of foreign imports and also lost many ships to U-Boats and mines. Before the end of the war, the company had purchased several other cargo steamers and even a sailing ship. The company then expanded and in 1920 owned 12 vessels and by 1923 grew to become one of Norway's largest shipping companies with 19 vessels. The economic collapse of the 1920's and new United States emigration regulations caused the company to diversify into other routes and also into pleasure cruising. In 1925, the first NAL cruises were operated to the North Cape, Norwegian fjords, Scotland, Iceland and the Baltic. Fortunes improved in the 1930s, and a new passenger ship, the Oslofjord (2) was delivered from a German yard in 1938. Her life was short, however, since she was lost to a mine in 1940. Postwar Recovery and Decline (1945 – 1980): Heavy ship losses were incurred during the Second World War, but a new program of ship building after 1945 quickly replaced these. This postwar programme included the Dutch-built in Oslofjord (3) 1949. She was followed by three further superb passengers ships, culminating in the Vistafjord (3) of 1973. The highest number of transatlantic passengers carried by the line was 25400, in 1956. Numbers declined thereafter, and the Sagafjord of 1965 was virtually 100% cruise ship. In the 1960's passenger traffic was largely taken over by aircraft and the company concentrated on cargo work and cruising. Both cargo and cruise services operated a loss in the late 1970s, and both were re-structured. New container ships were built in the 1970's but these made a large loss and w... read more

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