The steamship Dronning Maud was on a northbound journey when the Germans invaded Norway in April 1940. In Kirkenes city she was asked to transport a military medic company from Alta to Foldvik. The need for hospital ships were big, and the ship became thereafter equipped with big flags and other marks which all were marked with the red cross insignia so there should be no doubt about the intention for the vessel. The journey to Foldvik went without any problems, but when they was about to dock in the harbor on the 1. May 1940 there appear two German airplanes who attacks Dronning Maud. The ship got hit and an intensive fire occurs onboard. To protect the harbor and the area around, Dronning Maud is towed out to a reef where she stands burning, but still in floating condition. The day after there again appear German airplanes who again attack the hospital ship Dronning Maud, and this time they have more success, the ship disappears in the deep water. In total 19 human lives were lost in this sinking of Dronning Maud. Today Dronning Maud rest standing on her keel under eighteen to thirty meters of water in a relatively good condition, just outside Foldvik. You need a boat to reach the position of Dronning Maud, which is approx. four hundred meters from land...