By chance … a Nazi ship was found after 80 years of being sunk

Off the coast of Norway, the Nazi ship “Karlsruhe” was found that sank in 1940, and its wreck was discovered by chance at a depth of about 500 meters during an inspection of a marine electrical cable.

“Sometimes we find historical artifacts, but we have never found remains of this importance,” Ole Peter Huberstad, senior engineer at “Statnet”, the power cable operator, told AFP.

The German warship, which reached 174 meters, was dispatched as part of the invasion of Norway during World War II.

After the landing of the soldiers on April 9, 1940, it was attacked by Norwegian forces before being attacked by a British submarine, which blew it up with a torpedo, for which the German forces decided to sink it off the port of Kristiansand in the southern Norway.

Three years ago, sonar devices detected debris near a high-voltage cable connecting Norway and Denmark, but this was not the time for “Statnet” to do more research, according to the company.

However, on June 30, during an inspection of the submarine cable after a storm, a targeting device detected huge debris about 15 meters from the cable that was “blown up by a torpedo … It was soon evident by its guns. and one of the Nazi symbols on it which was a ship belonging to the war period, “according to the State Declaration.

The Norwegian Maritime Museum confirmed that the remains are from the ship “Karlsruhe”, which has not been found since it sank 80 years ago.

The ship, whose wreck lies 13 nautical miles from Kristiansand, was built in Kiel, northern Germany, and commissioned in 1927.