Photo www.photoship.co.uk Renamed after war as Cedar Trader
Built: 1929
Tonnage: 8,038 / 12,000 dwt
Cargo 11,000 tons of crude oil
Route: Capetown - Freetown
Captured by Cruiser Adm. Scheer 18/Jan/41 in the south Atlantic in pos. 11º 00”S 02º 00”W
0 Dead
37 Survivors
Sandefjord, with a prize crew aboard, was taken to the estuary of Gironde arriving on Febr. 27. Named Monsun she was scuttled at the French port of Nantes on March 1945. Later raised and repaired, sold to France as Brière, later named Cedar Trader as in the photo above.