Palime
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Palime
went down after she sailed on a mine laid out by the
French submarine Rubis 5.June 1940 under a
journey from Wilhelmshaven to Trondheim loaded with
ammunition. She was towed by two German escorts and
beached after the explosion. One of the escorts, M-11,
headed north to search for the hostile submarine that they
thought had torpedoed Palime but also but hit a mine and
went down. They were assisted later by a Dutch company to
salvage her, but under work on the wreck a large explosion
was set of and and killed a group of workers. Further
attempts to salvage her was abandoned. In the remaining
years of the war she was used as a target under German
exercises. In the 1960s the wreck was partly salvaged that
broke her further down. The remains rest today 200 meter
from shore on Jærens reef south of Honsvika. Wreck debris
and machine parts can be seen on the north side of the
reef on a depth of approx 40 to 60 meter.
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 Picture: Palime Originally from skovheim.org Nils Vik, private collection |
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