Ivarans Rederi AS was a merchant steamship company founded in Norway by Ivar Anton Christensen in 1902.
Ivaran had an involvement with Stockard resulted from World War II as they operated a tramping service between the East Coast of USA and South America which was previously managed by fellow Norwegian company A/S Holter Sørensens.
Talbot-Booth shows the vessels Ivaran and Lise in the name of Ivaran Lines which fits with the name based New York given by F. J. N. Wedge in Brown’s Flags and Funnels (Brown, Son and Ferguson; 1951).
SCAC Code: IVAU BIC Code (Container prefixes): IVLU In the final 1980s and 1990s the fleet was composed of multi-purpose container ships, which had names taken from the Channel Islands, in Southern California, USA: They were also operating a combined container-passenger ship, the Americana.
Stockard Steamship operated for World War II ships: SS Coastal Sentry