Selma
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The
steamer Selma went down in the deep after an explosion
11.January 1944 outside Nesodden She had been anchored
outside Hellvik after the "Filipstad Accident" 19.December
1943. Ammunition ignited in Oslo harbor which devastated
the harbor, several ships, and large parts of the city all
the way up to Drammensveien close to the Royal Palace. A
ship that laid not far from Selma when the accident
happened was the German steamer Johann Faulbaum who escaped the
accident unharmed, but was sunk later in Finnmark county.
Selma who was loaded with 1200 tons of ammunition, was
turned into a totally burned out wreck in the harbor. If
the explosion occurred by sabotage or was an accident is
still debated. 36 men lost their lives and another 400
were injured. She was towed out of the harbor and laid up
at anchor outside Hellvik. As a curiosity, in the summer
1995 workers found and dug up a grenade in the Royal
Castle park in Oslo, which originated from the Filipstad
accident in 1943. The remains of her rest today on a depth
of approximately 14 to 25 meter, about 150 meter southeast
of the green pole outside Hellvikflu.
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| GPS: N 59 51.852 E 10 41.020  Picture: Selma
Courtesy of Erling Skjold / NSA Last updated: January 2021
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