The German steamship Hamburg went down during the allied attack against Lofoten on the 4th of March 1941, also called operation Claymore. Under this combined attack of British and and small group of Norwegian soldiers, several institutions and buildings were destroyed around in Lofoten, and it is believed that nine ships were sunken. Number of prisoners after the operation was said to be 225 Germans and 15 presumably NS-members (nazi sympathizers), and many other Norwegians followed free willing to England. The steamship Hamburg laid at anchor in Svolvær harbor when a small group of British soldiers attacks the vessel with heavy weapons. Several grenades explodes on the deck and the German crew begins to abandon the destroyed vessel. Two men of the German crew stays onboard the ship and opens up the floodpipes, and soon after Hamburg disappear down in the deep. That the British sunk the ship is only propaganda. During operation Claymore there is believed that ships for a tonnage of 18000 tons were sunken. The wreck of Hamburg lies today on six to twenty five meters in Svolvær industrial harbor, in a good condition where she rests on her starboard side. The wreck is easily accessed from land where she rest approxamately one hundred meters from land...