Bjørnulf
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Gebr.Backe
was built by Eider Werft AG in Germany as a trawler, and
was launched in 1907 for the company Friedrich A. Pust.
After the outbreak of The Great War in 1914, she was
requisitioned by the Kaiserliche Deutche Marine and used a
s a guard boat. She survived the war, and was sold in 1932
and rebuilt to a cargo freighter. In the 1930's she was
sold several times, before she ended up in Norway in 1939
as Røykenes. In second world war she was again used as a
navy boat by the Kriegsmarine under the name Büffel. She
was sold for the last time in 1948 to Bergen, and was
renamed Bjørnulf. She hit ground at Breivika on the east
side of the island Frøya under heavy seas 30.January 1949.
She was written of as a total loss, and her broken and
scattered remains rest today in shallow waters close to
shore.
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| 61°47'44.5"N 4°52'40.2"E  Picture: Bjørnulf's remains Courtesy of Fylkesarkivet Last updated: January 2016 |
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