The steamer Nordnorge II was bought in after all the losses av ships from the Coastal Express under the second world war. One of these replacement ships was the Finnish Mariehamn which was bought in 1942 to cover the loss of the steamer Barøy, and the vessel was sent to rebuilding at Sarpsborg mekaniske verksted. On the 17 March 1944 the ship was finished, and got the name Nordnorge. This was actually the second ship with this name after the sinking of the first ship that was requisitioned by the Germans 7 May 1940, and sunk five days later by the British destroyers HMS Carlisle and HMS Zulu outside Hemnesberget. But neither Nordnorge II should survive the dangerous Norwegian coast for long. On 24 March 1944 Nordnorge was on a journey from Fredrikstad to Tromsø to be put in service for the Coastal Express, when she outside Honningsvåg at Stadtlandet got in the line of sight for the British submarine HMS Satyr. The British submarine torpedoed Nordnorge immediately, and the ship disappeared in the deep within a minute. By the crew who counted thirteen men, only two men survived which were picked up by a fishing vessel half an hour later. Among the perished was also captain Andreas A. Liland, who also had been on board the Coastal Express ship Barøy which was brutally sunk by a British airplane with many casualties in 1941. Today the wreck of Nordnorge rest northwest for the northern point on Stadtlandet. We have not been enlighten with the exact depth, but are told that the wreck rest in shallow water and in a relatively good condition...