The steamship Barcelona was sunk on the 29th of October 1941 outside Ålesund harbor. Barcelona was used by the Germans as a cargo freighter and troop transporter under the second world war. Until she was sunk outside Ålesund city in 1941 she was used for troop transport of German soldiers. On the 29th of October 1941 in the morning a British reconnaissance from Scotland flown over the city and observed the German cargo freighters which laid at anchor outside Ålesund harbor. It was thereby decided that they should launch a "Anti-shipping" attack on these vessels that same night. A quarter past nine that night the air alarm rings through Ålesund city when nine British Lockheed Hudson attacks the vessels. Barcelona is heavily damaged and one civilian and two antiaircraft soldiers are killed under the attack. Barcelona sink shortly after the attack. Today the wreck of Barcelona lies on a depth of forty two to seventy meters relatively good intact nortwest of Ålesund city, and in 1993 the ship bell was found and salvaged by sportsdivers. The wreck rest with listing on port side nearly three hundred meters from ashore out from Kongens gate, and you must have a boat to get out to the site...