The steamship Frankenwald ended her days in the waters outside Ytre Sula in the Sognefjorden on the 6. January 1940. The German vessel looses her control and drives straight in to Brattholmen, where the vessel quickly starts to take in water. Emergency signals are thereafter sent which are heard by Bergen Radio, and shortly after all electricity is gone. The crew are ordered  into the lifeboats and thereafter taken onboard by the fishing vessels who comes to assist and thereafter they are brought in to Bergen. The vessel lies by Brattholmen in peace and nothing much happens to her for a long time. In April the same year, the second world war also breaks out in Norway, and peoples soon forget about Frankenwald. First after the war has ended, Frankenwald gets visitors. Then by the Anda Brothers whom cuts of the propeller. Not much more happens thereafter to Frankenwald until sports diving becomes popular several decades later. In the recent years the wreck has been much visited by sports divers and is a popular dive site in this area of the country... The wreck of Frankenwald is situated on a depth of fifth teen to thirty meters on the west side of Ytre Sula, and to reach the area you need a boat...