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Dora Fritzen was built in England at the start of The First World war under the name Great City, and went under British flag until 1936 when she was renamed to Richmond Hill. The year after the ship was bought by a Greek company, and was again given a new name as Adamastos. But already the year after the ship got into German hands and received her final name, Dora Fritzen. The Germans out the ship in alert as a transport freighter for Kriegsmarine with the call-sign R5N for operation Seelöve in August 1940, and from september the same year the ship was given the callsign R2N. But operation Seelöve was never pulled through, and the ship received her civilian name again and was put in service with civilian transport. On 6. January 1945 Dora Fritzen was located outside Askvold by the Norwegian MTB 722 and was attacked with torpedoes. At eight o`clock in the evening on 6. January 1945, the big freighter disappeared in the deep outside Askrova. The wreck of Dora Fritzen rest today on an approximately depth of fifty meters, and to reach out here you have nice weather and a boat...
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