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The motor vessel Transport which might be better known under her former name Landanes, ended her days at Svartskjær outside Harstad on 6. April 1983. The vessel had through her history eight different names and had many various missions. The vessels history is unfortunately to long to listed here, but a short story can be told. The vessel was first used as a whaleboat until 1925 and was thereafter out in transport in Peru in South America. Then a longer period followed as a whaleboat again from 1928 to 1937. She was thereafter rebuilt and used as a passenger ship until the Germans requisitioned the vessel under the second world war. The Germans used the vessel as a guard boat in Stavanger for several years, and after the second world war the vessel again was put in service as a passenger ship. This service the vessel had until 1955 when she was rebuilt at Fredrikshavn in Denmark as a transport vessel. In 1981 the vessel was condemned and put out of service until she was sunk at Svartskjær in 1983. Today the wreck of Transport rest at depth of eighty meters...
Former names: Viking II ( 1914-1925 ), Rio China ( 1925-1928 ), Angola ( 1928-1929 ), Suderøy III ( 1929-1936 ), Landanes ( 1936-194? ) Sinbad, Landanes ( 1945-1969 ), Eva Karin ( 1969-1973 ), Fraktfem ( 1973-1976 ) |
Edited 24.06.2007 |