Sirius
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Sirius
was owned by the Norwegian company Bergenske
Dampskipselskap and was chartered from July 1894 to July
1895 by the Coastal Express. She had cabins for 70
passengers and in the following years she sailed several
routes along the Norwegian coastline. In 1927 the company
had bought better ships with better comfort for the
passengers, so they decided to remove her cabins and
rigged her down to a coastal freighter. Under a
journey from Røsneshavn to Risøyhavn with a crew of
nineteen men 18.May 1940,
they were requisitioned to bring supplies to the Norwegian
forces in Helgeland. Near Dyrøs they were spotted by
a German airplanes, and were soon attacked with machine
cannons. On the second attack she was hit by two bombs and
shortly after she broke in two parts and went down in the
deep. Eight men perished in the sinking of Sirius.The
wreck rest today on the north side of Dyrøy on a depth of
45 to 70 meter.
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| GPS: N69 51.044 E19 24.479  Picture: Sirius around 1890 Axel Theodor Lindahl Last updated: December 2020 |
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