Donau
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The steamer
Donau with a size of 9035 tons was usually transporting
supplies during the war, and Norwegian Jews to Germany in
1942. On her last voyage she was loaded with equipment for
the Austrian mountain rangers in Norway. She was sabotaged
by Max Manus and Roy Nielsen with a " little help " from a
few Limpet mines which he placed under the waterline on
her hull in Oslo harbor. It was meant that these mines
should sink Donau in open waters, but the mines went off
too early and the captain was able to beach her at
Skiphelle. This happened 17.January 1945 and there she was
left with her stern above the waterline until 1953. Einar
Høvding who had the rights to salvage the old war vessels
in Norwegian waters towed the wreck to Oslo for scrapping.
One of her ship bells are displayed today in Norways Resistance Museum in Oslo.
Its just some of the cargo left on the wreck site today,
and this includes remains of trucks and boogies just
outside the small pier at Skiphelle, south of Drøbak The
remains rest on a depth of 15 to 25 meter, and some
trucks,a motorcycle and other remains on a depth of 60
meter.
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| 59° 38' 13" N, 10° 38' 31" E ( Source: Dykkepedia )  Picture: Donau Passagierlisten DE   Picture: Skiphelle,south of Drøbak Nils Vik, private collection ( 2002 ) Last updated: September 2019 |
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