During the second world war, the German submarines inflicted heavy losses on the allied shipping. As a result, similar to USA`s version of the first world war, the americans starts to produce Liberty ships. These big cargo freighters were built on many different places in the USA and often built in record time. Totally there were built almost three thousand identical Liberty ships. The vessels were used on all fronts during the war and many of these went lost. After the war the Liberty ships gained many different faiths and one of these mighty cargo freighters ended her days outside Mandal on the 26. December 1946, and this was Am-Mer-Mar, Libertyship #134. The vessel was on a journey to Larvik with a cargo consisting of soybeans when the accident occurred late on the evening. The vessel stranded on Oddskjaerene due to incorrect navigation. The skipper had found out about the wrong's and tried to correct this, but it was to late. In the days to come the vessel stood high on the reef and part of the cargo were rescued. The final stroke comes on January 1st. 1947 under a heavy southwest storm which drags the vessel down into the deep. Am-Mer-Mar sinks down to twenty meters depth. Stavanger Skipsopphuggings Co. arrives on the site later and cuts up the hull, but mainly leaves the mid- and bow part of the wreck alone since they reckon it lies to deep... The remains of the wreck lies today on a depth from twelve to twenty five meters depth, with the bow as the best intact part. You can see the big proportions the vessel once had even if a lot of her were salvaged after the accident... You need a boat to get out to Am-Mer-Mar which lies on the west side of Odden outside Mandal...