Karlsruhe
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The
steamer Karlsruhe was built by Weser Werk AG in
Bremerhaven, and was launched in 1905 for the German
company Hamburg Amerika Linie. She was in 1935 sold to
Ernst Russ in Hamburg, but kept her original name. Under
second world war she
was requisitioned by the German Kriegsmarine, and she
participated in Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of East
Prussia in early 1945. Under a journey from Pillau to
Copenhagen loaded with vehicles, general goods and over
1000 people, she was attacked outside Stolpmünde in Poland
by Soviet torpedo bombers 13.April 1945. She was hit by a
torpedo and broke in two. She went down in the deep within
a few minutes, and its estimated that almost thousand
people perished in the sinking. The wreck was found
by the Polish diving team Baltitech in the summer 2020 on
a depth of 88 meters outside Ustka in Poland.
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 Picture: Karlsruhe Courtesy of Bladet Dykking Last updated: December 2020 |
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