Southern Actor
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|+ {{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Southern Actor at Sandefjord Museum.png |Ship caption=Southern Actor at Sandefjord harbour }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name=Southern Actor |Ship owner=Christian Salvesen Ltd |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Smiths Dock |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1950 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification= |Ship fate=Sold to Norway |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=Norway |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Norway}} |Ship name=Southern Actor |Ship acquired=1989Gjerseth, Simen (2016). Nye Sandefjord. Liv forlag. Page 122. {{ISBN|9788283301137}}. |Ship owner=Sandefjord Museum |Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|5335228}}
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Southern Actor is a former whale catcher, currently a museum ship based in Sandefjord, Norway and owned by Sandefjord Museum. It is the only whale catcher from the Modern Whaling Epoch still to be in its original working order.Olstad, Finn (1997). Sandefjords historie B.2: En vanlig småby? Sandefjord kommune. Page 395. ISBN 8299379725.{{Cite web | url=https://www.visitvestfold.com/en/sandefjord/see-and-do/attractions/museum/?TLp=3495&The-Whale-catcher-Southern-Actor |title = The Whale catcher Southern Actor}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.visitnorway.com/listings/the-whale-catcher-southern-actor/13/ |title = The Whale catcher Southern Actor}}{{Cite web | url=https://snl.no/Sandefjord |title = Sandefjord|date = 26 April 2019}} Over 100,000 hours have been spent on restoring the vessel.Bertelsen, Hans Kristian (2000). Sandefjord i bilder / Sandefjord in pictures. Grafisk studio forl. Page 22. ISBN 8290636024.
Southern Actor was built in 1950 at Smiths Dock, Middlesbrough, England, for the whaling company Christian Salvesen Ltd in Leith, Scotland. Many of Salvesen's employees were Norwegian mostly from Vestfold. The ship was in Norway for maintenance in the summer.
In 1995, Southern Actor was fully restored, as authentically as possible in relation to the way the boat was originally constructed. That same year she was declared worthy of preservation by Riksantikvaren, the Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage. Southern Actor is in working order and can be chartered for excursions.{{cite web |url=http://www.lardex.net/TONSBERG/salvesen/skipstekst/1950_southern_actor.htm |title=1950 DS/Hvb Southern Actor |website=Museumsskip i Sandefjord |date=}}
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External links
- {{cite web |url=http://www.mclaren.gs/s__actor.htm |title=Jim Mclaren's website devoted to maritime history of the far southern latitudes |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060113230115/http://www.mclaren.gs/s__actor.htm |archivedate=13 January 2006 |df=dmy-all }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.hvalfangstmuseet.no/en/southern-actor/ |title=Sandefjord Museum official website}}
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Category:Fishing vessels of Norway
Category:Museum ships in Norway
Category:Ships built on the River Tees
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