20. May 1940 the ship Skjerstad arrives the city of Bodø to receive new orders. The new orders consists of sailing British soldiers to Rognan and put them ashore there. Already the same night the course are set to Rognan and the vessel gets rid of her new cargo of soldiers. On the afternoon on the 22nd of May the vessel are laid up to land, but in the same time that the crew goes to their supper, three German Ju 87 from I/ StG 1 arrives. The crew on Skjerstad has already seen the planes and gets therefore time enough to run ashore before the attack start. Curiously enough the escapes the vessel all the bombs and the German planes have to return home without doing any damage. Same evening six new Ju 87 appears in the sky to deliver the last stroke to Skjerstad, but also this time the bombs misses their target! Shortly after midnight on the 24th of May there appear several planes on the sky. This last attack is pulled out by German He 111 planes from II/ KG 26, and this time they finish their mission. Three ours after this attack Skjerstad leaves the surface and lay herself on the bottom. S/S Skjerstad went down on the 24 th of May 1940 in Rognan harbor in Nordland county. The wreck lays in two pieces and is located on ten to twenty meters depth, with the bow part as the best intact piece. The wreck is easy to find since its located only forty meters from the floating pier on the south side of the harbor. Easily accessed with both boat and car...