In the "Great war" in the years 1914 to 1918 Germany was in the end totally blocked for supplies and this resulted in the end to Germany's and the allied armistice in November 1918. As a part in the German navy plan many civil vessels had cannons and machine guns, and in the years the war lasted many of these camouflaged ships proved their meaning against the allied civil fleets. One of these ships that had such a task was the steamship Oldenburg. In contrary to many other similar ships, Oldenburg survived the first world war. After the armistice the ship was put in civil traffic again, and she now lived a quiet life until the outbreak of the second world war. And again the ship was subdued to the German navy. But this time she got a more quiet role as a transport ship. In the war years during the second world war, Oldenburg went nearly twenty times in transport missions along the Norwegian coast, and her last journey ended in March 1945. Outside Vadheim in the Sognefjorden the ship was discovered by British Bristol Beaufighters and attacked with rockets and bombs on 7. April 1945. The Germans responded to the attack with intensive AA-fire, but the ship did`nt get away from the attack. Some time later the once so proud Oldenburg sinks on forty meters depth. Of the crew only one German got injured, and the Russian POW's that were onboard the ship got away from the attack without loss of human life. Neither any of the British planes were shot down during this "Anti shipping" mission. Today the wreck of Oldenburg rest on her starboard side in good condition on a depth from twenty four to seventy five meters, with her stern as the deepest point. The wreck lies approx. fifty meters from shore outside the pier where she was sunk..