Dampskipet
Karmøy ble senket av Barracuda of Seafire fly fra det det britiske
hangarskipet HMS Implacable den 28 oktober 1944 utenfor Lødingen
havn. Etter tyskernes okkupasjon av Norge i 1940, ble Karmøy
rekvirert av tyskerne, og frem til hun ble senket under det britiske
flyangrepet på Lødingen gikk hun i handelstrafikk mellom
Tyskland og Norge. Under angrepet omkommer fem mennesker ombord på
Karmøy. Etter den andre verdenskrig ble det berget på vraket
av Høvding Skipsopphugging, men kun plater fra baug og akter
seksjonene ble berget. Idag hviler vraket av Karmøy på
en dybde av ni til tjuefire meters dyp på flat sandbunn nærmere
et hundre meter fra land. Vraket av Karmøy er som regel merket
med bøye, og er et populært dykkemål...
The steamship Karmøy was sunk by Barracuda
and Seafire airplanes from the British aircraft carrier HMS Implacable
on the 28th of October 1944 outside Lødingen harbor. After
the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Karmøy was requisitioned
by the Germans, and until she was sunk under the British air attack
on Lødingen she went in commercial traffic between Germany
and Norway. Under the attack five peoples perish on board Karmøy.
After the second world war there were salvaged on the wreck by Høvding
Skipsopphugging, but only plates from the bow and stern sections
were salvaged. Today the wreck of Karmøy rest on a depth
of nine to twenty four meters deep on a flat sandy seabed closely
one hundred meters from ashore. The wreck of Karmøy is often
marked with a buoy, and is a popular divesite...
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Karmøy |
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295,7x 43,6x 20,6 f. |
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1436 nrt |
Alloa ( UK
) 1921 |
Haugesund
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4150 dwt.
Shipyard: Forth S.B & Eng.
Delivered April 1921.
HMS Implacable
Built
by Fairfield. Laid down 21 February 1939. Launched 10 December 1942.
Commissioned 28 August 1944.
Displacement: 23,825 tons standard ; 32,624 tons full load
Dimensions: 673 pp, 766.5 oa x 95.75 x 29 feet
British Pacific Fleet 1945. Refitted 1948-49. Paid off 1954 and stricken
1955. Broken up from November 1955.
The Implacables were a follow-on from the Illustrious class which
took Indomitable's modifications a stage further with a full length
two-level hangar. Hangar height was even less than in the Illustrious'
due to an attempt to stay within the London Naval Treaty's limitations
on displacement. By the end of the war, deck parking allowed 81 aircraft
to be carried. The lack of hangar height rendered the ships almost
useless after the war, unable to operate many modern aircraft.
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