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Havda ble senket av britiske fly utenfor øya Luta den 9. Desember
1944, mens skipet var på reise fra Måløy til Bergen
med passasjerer. Til vanlig gikk Havda trafikk mellom Trøndelag
og Stavanger. Havda ankom Måløy den 9. Desember 1944
med tolv passasjerer, hvor noen av dem var tyskere. Senere samme dag
på sin reise videre mot Bergen ble Havda angrepet av allierte
fly ved Askvoll. Under angrepet blir skipet truffet av bomber og maskingeværild
og forsvinner raskt i det kalde vannet. Av de som befant seg ombord
omkommer sesk personer, hvorav to fra besetningen, en los og tre passasjerer.
De restrerende sytten kom seg nesten uskadd fra angrepet. I dag ligger
vraket av Havda med slagside mot babord vest for øya Luta/Lutelandet
på en dybde av seksten til tretti meters dyp. Du må ha en
båt for å komme ut til vraket av Havda...
The steamship Havda was sunk by British
airplanes outside the island Luta on the 9. December 1944, while
the vessel was on a journey from Måløy to Bergen
with passengers. Havda usually trafickking between the Trøndelag
area and Stavanger. Havda arrived at Måløy on the
9. December 1944 with twelve passengers on board, where some of
them were Germans. Later that same day on her journey towards
Bergen, Havda were attacked by British airplanes at Askvoll. Under
the attck the vessel is hit by bombs and machinegun fire and quickly
disappears in the cold water. Of those who were on board six peoples
perish, where two were crewmembers, one pilot and 3 passengers.
The remaining seventeen got away almost unhurt from the attack.
Today the wreck of Havda lies with a listing towards port side
west of the island Luta/Lutelandet on a depth of sixteen to thirty
meters deep. You must have a boat to get out to the wreck of Havda...
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I found an article on this event in an old book, "Norsk presse
under Hakekorset" (The Norwegian Press under the Swastika), Vol.
II, 1946 by Gunnleik Jensson, which is a collection of newspaper articles
from the war years. As the newspapers were under German control, they
are full of propaganda and anti-British (and anti-"bolsjevic")
sentiment, so the account of this sinking is rather one-sided. At
the time the article appeared in the Oslo newspaper "Morgenposten"
(The Morning Post) on Dec. 12-1944, 10-12 people are feared dead.
It says Havda was in regular service Trondheim-Bergen, and was sunk
by Anglo-American aircraft south of Askvoll near Florø, half
an hour after she had departed Florø, and had a complement
of 20. She was sailing alone and had no armament. The pilot, an able
seaman and a female crew were killed outright from the machine gun
fire, and went down with the ship when she sank in 8-10 minutes after
having been hit by a bomb. The attack happened close to land, so that
survivors were able to get to some islets until rescuers could pick
them up. 11 were injured and were sent to the hospital in Florø,
but 2 died en route. The remaining survivors, 14 crew and 3 passengers
were taken to Askvoll.
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