MV Falkefjell (1931)

Falkefjell was an 8,072-ton motor vessel built by Kockums, Sweden in 1931 for AB Falkefjell.

Falkefjell c.1940
History
Name	Falkefjell
Owner	A/S Falkefjell, Oslo
Builder	Kockums, Sweden
Launched	1931
Fate	Broken up in 1957.
General characteristics
Length	461.6 ft (140.7 m)
Beam	59.8 ft (18.2 m)
Draught	34.6 ft (10.5 m)
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)

Operational history

Falkefjell was chartered to the Anglo-Saxon Company and was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and loaned to the Royal Australian Navy as a fleet replenishment oiler in December 1941. She was returned to the British Admiralty in April 1942.

Fate

Renamed Uarda in 1957, she arrived at Hong Kong on 5 December to be broken up.