Dampskipet
Fusa gikk ned den 8 januar 1945 under reise fra Bergen til Tysnes da
skipet ble angrepet av femten britiske fly i Korsfjorden. Fusa ble angrepet
til tross for at skipet hadde tydelig merking med nasjonalitetsmerker.
Under angrepet oppstår det panikk da passasjerene forsøker
å komme seg i sikkerhet, og under de tre angrepene Fusa blir utsatt
for, omkommer åtte mennesker og mange andre blir såret.
Tallet på omkomne er også oppgitt til å være
elleve personer i noen kilder. Etter angrepet flyter fortsatt skipet,
og besetningen forsøker deretter å komme til land med skipet,
men ved Korsneset har forskipet sunket ned i vannet og mannskapet forlater
det synkende skipet. De tyske styrkene i Norge bruker hendelsen i sin
propaganda med en viss rettighet, men som mye annet i den tyske propaganda
under krigen blir hendelsen overdrevet. Uansett må det sies at
angrepet ikke var berettiget, men som så mange ganger under den
andre verdenskrig, tok heller ikke de allierte det så seriøst
med å følge alle regler. Idag ligger vraket av Fusa på
tjuefem til trettifem meters dyp rett sør for skjæret Korsneset
med akterskipet som den grunneste delen. Vraket kan være noe vanskelig
å finne, men ligger rett ved et undervannsskjær som man
treffer på fem meters dyp, med retning mot Blia...
The steamer Fusa went down on the 8th of
January 1945 under a journey from Bergen to Tysnes when the vessel
were attacked by fifteen British airplanes in Korsfjorden. Fusa
was attacked despite the fact that the vessel was clearly marked
with nationality marks. Under the attack panic arises when the passengers
tries to get into safety, and during the three attacks Fusa receives,
eight peoples perish and many others is injured. The number of casulaties
is also set to be eleven peoples in certain sources. After the attack
the vessel is still afloat, and the crew thereafter tries to get
ashore with the vessel, but at Korsneset the bowpart has sunk in
the waters and the crew abandon the sinking vessel. The German forces
in Norway use the incident in their propaganda with some rights,
but as like many others things in the German propagandy under the
war the incident is exaggerated. Anyway it has to be said that tha
attack was not legitimate, but just like many other times under
the second world war, the allied didnt either took it so serious
to follow all the rules. Today the wreck of Fusa lies on twentyfive
to thirtyfive meters depth south of the reef Korsneset with the
stern as the shallowest part. The wreck can be somewhat difficult
to locate, but rest besides an underwater reef you will meet on
a depth of five meters, with direction towards Blia...
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Fusa |
Älvdrottningen, Sarö |
Iron |
111,8x 19,1x ? f. |
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Göteborg
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Bergen ( N
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GPS: N 60.12.18.4 E 005. 15. 24.6
Fusa, Det Midthordlandske Dampskibsselskap A/S, Bergen,172 gt, Built
1875. Coastal passenger/cargo vessel, with a 275 passenger capacity.
Captain Strønen. Attacked and sunk by about 15 British aircraft
in Korsfjord, south of Korsnes, off Bergen Jan. 8-1945. The following
information was taken from an old book, "Norsk presse under Hakekorset"
(The Norwegian Press under the Swastika), Vol. II, 1946 by Gunnleik
Jensson, which is a collection of newspaper articles from the war
years. As the newspapers were under German control, they are full
of propaganda and anti-British (and
anti-"bolsjevic") sentiment, so the account of this sinking
is rather one-sided. At the time the article appeared in he Oslo newspaper
"Aftenposten" on Jan. 10 the assumption was that 8-10 people
had lost their lives, mostly passengers (some names are listed). Fusa's
cargo consisted mainly of food supplies and mail. On Jan. 16 there's
another article based on an interview with the captain at a hospital
in Bergen, in which he says the aircraft viciously attacked with machine
guns and bombs in 3 waves. After the survivors had departed in lifeboats,
the officers and some of the crew stayed on board
in an effort to beach the ship (the incident happend not far from
land), and they did succeed in getting her going towards land, but
had to jump overboard as she started to sink deeper and deeper. On
the 11th another short note says that 7 people (2 crew, 5 passengers)
had died, 4 of whom went down with the ship.
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