Det
tidligere svenske skipet Nordvard ble bombet i senk i Moss havn i Østfold
fylke under et alliert bomberaid den 28. desember 1944 mot Horten og
Moss, hvor også M\T Holmengraa og den tyske ubåten U 735
gikk ned. Nordvard var utpekt fra tyskernes side som moderskip for tyske
S- R- og E- båter, og var lastet med torpedoer og synkeminer da
det ble senket. Nordvard ble kapret av den tyske hjelpekrysser Penguin
det Indiske hav i september 1940, og deretter sendt til Bordeaux i Frankrike
og satt inn i tysk miltær tjeneste. Fangene fra Nordvard ble den
3. Mai 1941 sendt tilbake til Norge med det tyske skipet Donau etter
flere måneder i tyske fangeleire. Da det allierte angrepet var
over om natten den 28. Desember, er det antatt at nærmere sytti
tyskere omkom. Vraket ligger i dag rett utenfor cellulosefabrikken i
Moss, hvilende på styrbord side. Dykking på vraket begrenser
seg til ukene i sommerferien på grunn av fabrikken like ved. Dybden
på Nordvard går fra tjuefem til førtifem meter. Et
annet mindre vrak ligger også tyve meter fra Nordvard`s baug (
se Alstein for mer informasjon
)
The
former Swedish ship Nordvard was bombed in Moss harbor in Østfold
county during an allied bomb raid 28. December 1944 against Horten
and Moss, where M\T Holmengraa and also the German submarine U
735 went down. Nordvard was pinpointed as an mother ship for the
German S- R and E- boats, and was loaded with torpedoes and depth
charges when she was sunken. Nordvard was captured by the German
auxilary cruiser Pinguin in the India Ocean in September 1940,
and thereafter sent to Bordeaux in France where she was put into
German military service. The prisoners from Nordvard were on May
3rd 1941 sent back to Norway with the German ship Donau after
several months in German prison camps. When the allied attack
was over the night of 28. December, it is believed that approximately
seventy Germans died. The wreck of the Nordvard lies today just
outside the paper mill in Moss, resting peacefully on her starbord
side. Diving on the wreck is restricted to the weeks in the summer
holiday because of the factory near by. Depths on Nordvard range
from twenty five to forty five meters. Another small wreck also
rest twenty meters from Nordvard`s bow ( see Alstein
for more information )
PINGUIN: This was Hansa's Kandenfels,
built in 1937, measuring 7766 gt with a top speed of 17
knots. She sank or captured 32 ships with a total tonnage of 154 619
gt. She also caused more damage to the Norwegian fleet than any other
cruiser (because of the capture of the large whaling fleet). She went
out in June-1940. She was eventually sunk by the British cruiser Cornwall
on May 8-1941. 341 of her crew went down with her, as well as more
than 200 prisoners, the majority from India. Only 57 Germans and 22
prisoners were saved.
The
former Swedish ship Nordvard was bombed in Moss harbor in Østfold
county during an allied bomb raid 28. December 1944 against Horten
and Moss, where M\T Holmengraa and also the German submarine U
735 went down. Nordvard was pinpointed as an mother ship for the
German S- R and E- boats, and was loaded with torpedoes and depth
charges when she was sunken. Nordvard was captured by the German
auxilary cruiser Pinguin in the India Ocean in September 1940,
and thereafter sent to Bordeaux in France where she was put into
German military service. The prisoners from Nordvard were on May
3rd 1941 sent back to Norway with the German ship Donau after
several months in German prison camps. When the allied attack
was over the night of 28. December, it is believed that approximately
seventy Germans died. The wreck of the Nordvard lies today just
outside the paper mill in Moss, resting peacefully on her starbord
side. Diving on the wreck is restricted to the weeks in the summer
holiday because of the factory near by. Depths on Nordvard range
from twenty five to forty five meters. Another small wreck also
rest twenty meters from Nordvard`s bow ( see 