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Outside Holmestrand city in Vestfold county the island Langøya can be found. The place has been in use since 1685, and is today a reception for special waste materials. The waste has been transported by boats to the island for many years, and today two of these rests on the bottom outside the island. The smallest one of these two ships is the wreck of Cement 2. Originally the ship originated from England, but was bought by Christiania Portland Cementfabrikk and put into transporting concrete between Slemmestad and Kristiania. In the years that followed the ship was used in various tasks in the area, both in transport between Langøya and Slemmestad and as a tourist boat in the Oslofjord. The ship was under the first world war rebuilt, but the capasity was anyway to small, and in 1923 she was stripped down to a barge. In the time up until 1930 when she went down, Cement 2 was used in transport between Langøya and Slemmestad again. Today the wreck of Cement 2 lies just outside the pier of NOAH as a splendid "Donald Duck" wreck on twelve to twenty four meters depth on the west side of Langøya. And not far from this wreck rests also the big wreck of Astri. To visit the wreck of Cement 2 you need a boat to get over to Langøya...
Picture: © Kai Garseg |
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Edited 29.06.2007 |