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Pallas ended her
days on Stalsberget on the south side of Jeløya outside
Moss city on the 18. November 1919. The barque was on a journey
from Leith in Scotland to Kristiania with a cargo of 830 tons
of coal. Pallas laid in Scottland in the beginning of November
and the barque were short of two men since it was quite hard to
find crew in the time after the world war one. The night before
the accident heavy winds and snow fall appeared and with heavy
thoughts of all the mines that still were floating around in the
North sea and the coastline of southern Norway after the war they
had enough to think about on the journey to Norway. The night
of destiny it came bad weather along the coast and heavy wind
and snow made the condition difficult for the ships out in the
sea. The weather conditions was getting worse during the evening
and the snow made the visibility like zero, and at four o'clock
in the morning Pallas stranded on Sauetogrunne outside Stalsberget.
The sea flowed in through the starboard side of the barque and
it was soon after ordered that the crew should get into the lifeboats.
The lifeboats with the captain and his crew drifted up the fjord
and they came to land first at ten o'clock in the morning. In
the weeks that followed the cargo and other inventory and equipment
were rescued from the wreck, which thereafter ended up as a total
wreck near land on Stalsberget. Today the remains of this big
barque rests near land in the bay in Stalsberget on the south
side of Jeløya. Pallas is after all the years in the sea
pretty much broken down, and the remains of the ship lies on a
depth of fifteen to twenty meters. Its possible to reach the wreck
on foot, but a boat is a recommended transportation under diving
since its a lang way to walk down to Stalsberget...
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Edited 29.06.2007 |