Built under yard No 689 by Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen for H/F Eimskipafelag Island, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Launched under the name GODAFOSS.
Tonnage 2.905 gross, 1.620 net, 2.675 dwt, dim. 94.65 x 14.06 x 9.02m.
Powered by a Burmeister & Wain diesel engine, 3.700 ihp, speed 14.5 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 12 passengers.
1948 Completed.
After delivery used in the service between North Europe and the Faeroe Islands and Iceland. (W.P. gives; she sailed mainly between Iceland and the U.S., but occasionally to Europe.)
1968 Sold to Cape Horn Shipping Corp., Monrovia, Liberia, renamed ARIMATHAN.
1970 Sold to Neravlax Co. Ltd., Limasol, Cyprus, renamed KRIOS.
On a voyage from MONTEVIDIO to Piraeus and Beirut, with a cargo of frozen meat and life sheep, she sank in position 02 17N and 29 55W off the North East coast of Brazil on 24 January 1971, after her engine room and holds got flooded.
Her crew was saved by the Spanish vessel TALO, which took them to Tenerife, Canary Islands.
The master George Periwolaris reported that the propeller lost a blade with the result that the engine ran astern and the stern tube was smashed, followed by flooding.
Iceland 1995 30k sg 847, scott 806.
Source: Log Book. Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 by Norman Hooke.
Register of Merchant ships completed in 1948. W.P. Volume 42/43.