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Morgana which was on a journey from Norfolk, USA to Vardø city and loaded with coal, ended her days in the waters just outside Bodø on the 13th of November 1920. The ship was originally from England and was laid down in Sunderland in 1892, but was bought up and transferred to Norway only six years later. She then got the name Songa 7 and served several years in international traffic. At the end of the year 1919 the ship was sold to Mr. Jespersen in Tønsberg who named the ship Morgana. Only eight months later the ship was again sold, and this time to Mr. Andersen in Bergen. And this was going to be last owner of the ship. On the 13th of November 1920 the ship was on her last part of the journey between Norfolk and Vardø when she in the middle of the night under bad weather, stranded on the Fuglesangene outside Bodø city and was stuck there. To all luck the weather was getting better, but the situation was still critical and they sent out the SOS signal. After a while the Dutch ship Larenberg came to assistance, and twenty four men of the crew were picked up and transported in to Bodø city. The captain and nine men decided to stay onboard to try to rescue the ship, but again the weather was changing to the worse and during the night Morgana went down in to the deep. The captain and his nine men who were left onboard had abandoned the ship in time and had got to land. They were soon reunited with the rest of the crew who earlier had been taken in to the city. In the days that followed some of the inventory was salvaged, but the ship remained in the deep and was soon forgotten. And she should rest here until 1995 when Erling Skjold refound the ship. Today the wreck of Morgana lies on the south side of the Fuglesangene on a depth from three to thirty meters, with the stern as the most shallow part. The wreck lies in two pieces, and the stern is the best intact part. After many years on the sea bottom the bow is totally broken down. To reach out to the wreck of Morgana you need some nice weather and a boat...
GPS: N 66 58.244 E 13 41.733 |
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Edited 29.06.2007 |