Amasis
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The
steamship Amasis was put in service for the German company
DDG Kosmos as a freighter. In 1926 she was sold to HAPAG
and put in the route between Hamburg and South America.
And this service she do until the outbreak of second world
war. In October 1939 she arrived in Hamburg after a
dangerous journey through the south Atlantic, and was
thereafter used in the Baltic sea. In the beginning of
April 1940, Amasis loads a cargo of coal in Stettin and
set course for Norway under command of Carl Albrect and a
crew of 51 men. 9.April 1940 she is located outside
Lysekil when the British submarine HMS Sunfish spot a big
German freighter. Sunfish fires two torpedoes, but only
one hit Amasis at mid ship on her port side. The British
submarine tries thereafter to find out the identity of
this ship, but is forced to submerge when they see
airplanes approaching. Albrect gives order to stop the
engines, and anchor up since he believe the damage isnt
critical. Most of the crew goes to the lifeboats, but the
captain and a Swedish pilot decides to stay on board.
Fishing boats arrives and offer help, but this is rejected
by Albrect. On the night 10.April she disappears in the
deep outside Tovas Unger. The wreck was located in the
late 1950s on a depth of 35 to 50 meter.
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| 58°14′21.5″ N 11°15′47″ E  Picture: Amasis Originally from skovheim.org 
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