Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in

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by Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902. The flag was red with a white "C" in the middle, for the founder's family name:

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History

Stockard Steamship Corporation

Stockard Steamship Company of New York was the major agent of Ivaran for many years. Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from

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as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company A/S Holter Sørensens. In ''Merchant Ships'' (The Macmillan Company; 1944), E.C. Talbot-Booth shows the vessels ''Ivaran'' and ''Lise'' in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by F. J. N. Wedge in ''Brown’s Flags and Funnels'' (Brown, Son and Ferguson; 1951). Subsequently Ivarans appear to have re-established in Oslo under their own name. *Stockard Steamship Corporation was active with charter shipping with the

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and

War Shipping Administration The War Shipping Administration (WSA) was a World War II emergency war agency of the US government, tasked to purchase and operate the civilian shipping tonnage the United States needed for fighting the war. Both shipbuilding under the Maritime C ...

for

. The ship was run by its Stockard Steamship Corporation crew and the

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supplied

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s to man the deck guns and radio.

CP Ships

Ivaran Lines was bought by

CP Ships CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...

in May 1998, being unprofitable at that time. The last Ivaran's chairman was Eirik Holter-Sorensen. CP's Ivaran brand name was replaced by the '' Lykes Lines'' brand in 2000. By 2001

was the seventh largest carrier in the world. When acquired by

, Ivaran Lines was operating the following services: * U.S. East Coast to East Coast South America (with Columbus Line and Alianca) * U.S. Gulf Coast to East Coast South America (with Grupo Libra and TMM) * U.S. Gulf Coast to Central America and the Caribbean.

was bought out in late 2005 by

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and merged in mid-2006 in the

Hapag-Lloyd Hapag-Lloyd AG is a German international shipping and container transportation company, the 5th biggest in the world. It was formed in 1970 through a merger of Hamburg-American Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd. History The company was forme ...

organization.

International identifiers

SCAC Code: IVAU
BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU

Vessels

In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA: * ''Salvador'' * ''Santa Fe'' * ''San Diego'' * ''San Clemente'' * ''San Lorenzo'' * ''San Miguel'' * ''San Nicolas'' * ''San Pedro'' * ''San Isidro'' * ''Santa Cruz'' * ''San Francisco'' (LPG) * ''Santos'' * ''São Paulo'' * ''Savannah'' * ''San Luis'' * ''San Nicolas X'' * ''Santa Rosa'' * ''San Marino'' * ''San Martin'' * ''San Juan'' * ''Santa Catarina'' * ''San Antonio'' * ''Santa Margarita'' They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the ''Americana''. In 1998, Ivaran Lines had a fleet of 13 container ships with a capacity between 563 and 1742 TEU.

Stockard Steamship World War II

Stockard Steamship operated for World War II ships:

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* SS ''Attleboro Victory''

Liberty ship Liberty ships were a ship class, class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program. Although British in concept, the design was adopted by the United States for its simple, low-cost cons ...
s

*SS ''Dan Beard'' *SS ''Daniel Chester French'' *SS ''Paul Chandler'' *SS ''Joseph C. Lincoln'' *SS ''John L. Elliott'' *SS ''John W. Garrett'' * SS ''George R. Poole'' *SS ''Thomas Sinnickson'', sank July 7, 1943 torpedoed by ''U-185'' off Brazil *SS ''William Crompton'' *SS ''Charles N. Cole'' *SS ''Jesse Cottrell'' * SS ''W. S. Jennings'' * SS ''Wendell L. Willkie'' * SS ''Edgar E Clark'' * SS ''John H. McIntosh''

Other

SS ''Coastal Sentry''

References

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Other sources

* SECDatabase.com

CP SHIPS LTD, Form 6-K, Filing Date Sep 7, 2004
Locistics Management
01. May 1998

External links

(Collection of old company brochures)
IVARAN group on facebook
(IVARAN group on Facebook) Defunct shipping companies of Norway Transport companies established in 1902 1902 establishments in Norway Transport companies disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Norway