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Bessheim
normally went in passenger traffic between Oslo and
Newcastle in England. After the outbreak of world war two
she sailed in several Allied convoys. At the German
invasion of Norway in April 1940, operation Weserübung,
she was in Norwegian waters, and was thereafter put in
service for the Norwegian Home fleet. 21. November 1941
she was on a voyage from Kvalsund to Hammerfest when she
was shook by an explosion outside Hammerfest harbor. She
disappeared in the deep a few minutes later. The cause of
the sinking is still disputed, and some say she was sunk
by a Russian mine, others claim it was a torpedo from a
British submarine. Three men of the crew perished in the
sinking. The wreck of Besshein rest today on a depth of 60
meter, less than one nautical mile southwest of Hammerfest
harbor.
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Bessheim
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256,0 x 36,1 x 22,8 f
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1774 grt
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Kristiania ( N ) 1917
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Kristiania ( N ) |
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