Thorshavet

Thorshavet was a Norwegian whaling factory ship, a large vessel that processed whales at sea, built in 1947 off the coast of Mauritania according to the Norwegian maritime magazine Kystmagasinet. She was later renamed Astra. In her later life she collided with the Singapore-flagged cargo ship Karonga off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, and she sank on 17 April 1974 with the loss of one crew member. The record of her career is short: the article gives her nationality, type, build year, later name and the circumstances of her loss, and these are the facts this entry rests on.