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The
steamer Richard With was named after the Coastal express
founding father. She was laid down at Trondheim in Norway
in 1909, registered to carry 300 passengers. Saturday
13.September 1941 she was on a journey southwards with 135
people on board, when she is hit by a torpedo and sinks in
less than a minute. Of the people on board, Captain
Kristian Dahl Knutsen who was in command and 102 people
lost their lives. Close by the Norwegian vessel Skolpen
laid at anchor, which by a miracle managed to rescue the
remaining people in the water. Richard With was torpedoed
close to Rolvsøya between Hammerfest and Honningsvåg by
the British submarine HMS Tigris which neither gave the
crew or passengers the option to abandon ship before they
torpedoed her. Kptlt. Bone who had the command on HMS
Tigris tried to lie his way out of the situation later by
telling that she had been part of a convoy. The lie was
uncovered and Bone received a formal warning, and that was
the end of that story. Historians has tried to blame the
Germans or the Russians for this incident, but they can
not turn a blind eye to the documentation and the
statements from Royal Navy. According to some unverified
sources, the wreck rest today on a depth of approx 55
meter.
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Richard
With
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226,3 x 36,5 x 15,7 f
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904 grt
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Trondheim ( N )
1909 |
Vesterålen ( N ) |
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