Øygar Senior
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Øygar
sailed as a passenger boat in Iceland and along the
Norwegian coastline until the German invasion of Norway in
April 1940. She survived an engagement with a German boat
22.April, and was later requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine
after Norway capitulated. The Germans put her in service
as a guard boat and renamed her Bisam NB 07, and later to
Vorpostboot V- 5507. She survived the war, and re-entered
the duty as a passenger boat in the same company.After
decades of service, she was towed to Moldvær south of
Ålesund in Heissafjord 4.November 1983 to be scrapped. She
later sank while at anchor and the wreck was abandoned. As
late as in January 2013, she was deleted from the ship
lists. The wreck rest today on a depth of approx 20 meter
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 Picture: Bisam NB 07 Originally from skovheim.org |
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