1904 Built as BJØRNSTJERNE BJØRNSON at Nylands Verksted, Kristiania for A/S Ocean (manager John P. Pedersen & Søn, Lysaker), Kristiania. Launched 20/09, delivered 17/10. Yard no. 150. Namesake: a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature Tonnage: 1,850 tdw, 1,164 grt, 698 nrt.