UJ - 173 Heinrich Wesselhöft
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UJ
173 was laid down as a trawler in Wesermünde in Germany in 1941,
and had a short career as an submarine hunter for the
Kriegsmarine. Under a search to locate a British submarine
together with several other German ships 8.May 1941, she
was bombed by Allied Bleinheim airplanes and sank at
Karlsmedgrunden southwest of Stavanger. This group
consisted of the four submarine hunters UJ 171, UJ 173, UJ
176 and UJ 179, and the minesweeper M 84. The airplanes
attacked twice, and UJ 173 went down after being hit by
three bombs. One Blenheim plane was shot down by the
German minesweeper M 84 and under the attack six men were
killed and another fourteen injured. The battered remains
of the uboat hunter rest today on a depth of 15 to 30
meter west of Feistein lighthouse.
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| 58° 56' 17" N, 5° 30' 4" E  Picture: UJ 173 Erling Skjold / Norwegian Shipwreck Archive |
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