MV Aase Maersk (1930)
# MV Aase Maersk (1930)

MV Aase Maersk or Aase Mærsk was a Danish 6,184 GRT oil tanker. Odense Steel Shipyard of Odense built her in 1930 for A. P. Moller of Copenhagen. She was a motor ship, powered by a Burmeister & Wain six-cylinder four-stroke single-acting marine diesel engine developing 489 NHP.

## Second World War

In the Second World War the UK Ministry of War Transport took her over and appointed C.T. Bowring & Co to manage her. She served with the United States Navy, Royal Australian Navy, and Royal Navy. The Bathurst-class corvette HMAS Geelong collided with her on 11 November 1942. Aase Mærsk was returned to her owners in 1945.

## Fate

Aase Mærsk was scrapped at Preston, Lancashire in December 1960.

