Westfalen
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Westfalen
was built by J.C Tecklenborg in Geestemünde,
and was launched in 1906 for NordDeutscher
Lloyds. She was put in service in the route Germany -
America until the First World War, and was then interned
in Chile. She sat sail again in 1920, and in 1933 she
was sold to Lufthansa AG. After the outbreak of World
War Two she was requisitioned by the German Luftwaffe
and used as a seaplane tender. Under a journey from Oslo
to Germany loaded with soldiers and prisoners of war,
she lost her convoy in roughs seas and ran into a
Swedish mine field 7. September 1944.
She soon hit two mines outside Gothenburg and
disappeared in the deep with 150 people. Today she rest
in two parts on a depth of 32 to 55 meter west of Rörö
at Store Pölsens lighthouse.
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| GPS (ED50) :57:46,813 11:27,431 ( Source: Vragguiden )  Picture: Westfalen Courtesy of Allan Jensen Last updated: August 2019 |
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