World War IIDS Breiviken
SS Breiviken (former Kronstad) departed from Durban alone on the 1st of July 1943. The ship was heading for Mombasa loaded with coal, but on the 7th of July 1943 it was torpedoed by the German uboat U-178 submarine in the Mozambique Channel in position 2105S, 3750E. The vessel sank in a couple of minutes. The crew dove into the sea from the bilge keel and swam along the shipside and eventually found some wreckage that they could float on. Three men drowned and 20 men were floating in the water. Several more sailors would have drowned if it wasn’t for the German U-boat that rescued them. Uboat Commander Wilhelm Dommes took the survivors to the uboat’s deck for a half hour before they boarded a raft. In the meantime, two lifeboats surfaced upside down. The crew got a hold of them and emptied them of water and just after three days they hit land.
About DS Breiviken
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Nationality
Norway
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Built
1911
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Wrecked
07.07.1943
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Carrier
Wallem & Co.,Bergen
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Tonnage
4600 dvt
