Alan A. Dale
| History | |
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 Denmark
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| Name: | Nordvest |
| Operator: | D/S Norden, Copenhagen |
| Builder: | Nakskov Skibsværft A/S, Nakskov |
| Yard number: | 85 |
| Launched: | 1938 |
| In service: | 1938 |
| Out of service: | 1941 |
| Fate: | Requisitioned by U.S. Maritime Commission, 1941 |
 United States Navy
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| Name: | Alan A. Dale |
| Operator: | Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand |
| Acquired: | 1941 |
| In service: | 1941 |
| Out of service: | 1944 |
| Fate: | Sunk, 23 December 1944 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | 4,702 GRT |
| Length: | 122.3 m (401 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 17.5 m (57 ft 5 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × diesel engines, 2,300 bhp (1,715 kW) |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 65 |
Alan A. Dale was a cargo ship that served under United States control during World War II. Originally the Danish ship Nordvest, she was requisitioned in 1941, and sunk off the Netherlands in late 1944.
The ship was built in 1938 at the Nakskov Skibsværft A/S yard at Nakskov, Denmark. Under the name Nordvest she was owned and operated by D/S Norden of Copenhagen. After the outbreak of World War II she remained in port in the United States and was one of the 84 foreign ships seized by the U.S. Maritime Commission under the Ship Requisition Act (Executive Order No. 8771), signed on June 6, 1941. She was subsequently reflagged under Panama and operated by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. As well as her civilian crew she carried a contingent from the USN Armed Guard.
Alan A. Dale sailed independently for , Chile, arriving there in October 1941, then returned via the Panama Canal to Baltimore in early December. On December 15, 1941, she sailed from Halifax to Belfast as part of Convoy HX 165, returning to the United States as part of Convoy ON 59 in January 1942. After another Atlantic crossing, (Convoys HX 179 and ON 89), she sailed alone from Hampton Roads on June 1, 1942, to the Indian Ocean, calling at Cape Town, Abadan, Bahrein and Bombay, before returning via Durban, Trinidad and Guantánamo Bay, and arriving at New York City, on November 2.
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