Ustetind
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Ustetind(LDPR), built in 1922 at Tangen Skipsbyggeri, Drammen, Norway, to Carl Jebsen, Bergen. In 1925 sold and registered to Brødrene Aarsether A/S, Aalesund, Norway.
A twin screw, 547/305 tons vessel, with a cargo of telegraph poles en route from Porsgrunn to the Tyne, England, was driven ashore from anchor and wrecked on the beach in Sil Wick, in the Parish of Sandsting on 25th December 1929. The crew all waded ashore safely, but the vessel was a total loss.
The vessel had been at anchor as the result of being partially disabled in an earlier storm, during which she had lost a propellor.
