I finally was able to get the name of the ship my great-grandfather traveled to from Norway to Newport News, Virginia. That ship is the Noruega, run by Norway-Mexico Gulf Line, and I am fairly confident it departed from Olso (Christiania) on April 9, 1912, and arrived at Newport News, Virginia on May 1, 1912. I'm quite curious at to the path it took during that voyage, particularly because that is the same time frame that the Titanic left, and a family legend has it that his ship heard the distress call of the Titanic. From what I've been able to deduce, the distance would have been immense, I had gathered a day's travel would have been required from the family legend, but from what I have deduced, the distance was more likely on the very edge of radio range in the day, likely closer to 1700 miles, about a week's worth of travel time with the speed of the ship. I could be quite a bit off on these, BTW.
What I can't tell is if it stopped anywhere along the way, or if the way they went was above or below England. Above would be shorter, but...