The steamship Vestra was owned by the Haugesunds company Richard Jansen, and did under the second world war service for the Germans. She sailed with Norwegian crew, but had a own flak crew consisting of German soldiers which manned the antiaircraft guns on board. Vestra laid at anchor in Haugesund under a journey from Nordmøre to Sauda with a cargo of limestone  when she was attacked by Bristol Beaufighter planes form the British RAF squadrons 235, 248 and 404 on the afternoon on 21. October 1944. The crew which were below deck never got time to man the antiaircraft guns. After several rapid hits from the British airplanes the vessel sank down in the deep with her bow first, and the whole crew got away from the assault without injuries. Under the assault several other vessels were damaged, among these the German cargo freighter Eckenheim who later found her final rest outside Farsund in 1945. Today the wreck stands on her keel as a classic " Donald Duck" wreck with the bow pointing towards north in Haugesund harbor. The wreck of Vestra rest on a depth of forty to fifty meters right outside UMOE shipyard...