Walma

The Walma (before 1934, ex. Aina , ex. Lennart , ex. Driva ) was a cargo steamer from Finland.

The ship was measured with 1,361 GRT and was 73 m long, 10.70 m wide and a draft of 5.20 m. It belonged to the Baltic Lloyd shipping company in Helsinki . The ship in 1908 in Great Britain built shipyard Campbeltown Shipbuilding Co. in Campbeltown .

Sinking

The Walma sank on September 23, 1939 at 4.15 p.m. in the North Sea at position 58 ° 15 ′  N , 11 ° 0 after the detonation of explosive cartridges, which had been attached by a prize squad from U 4 ( Kapitänleutnant Harro von Klot-Heydenfeldt) ′  O in the marine grid square AO 4195.

The crew of 18 men was towed up to five nautical miles off the Norwegian coast in two boats . The ship had 1622 tons of cellulose loaded and was on its way to Ellesmere Port .

literature

• Rainer Busch: The Submarine War 1939–1945. Volume 3. ISBN 3-8132-0513-4 .
• Erich Gröner: The merchant fleets of the world 1942 and supplement 1944. ISBN 3-469-00552-4 .
• Erich Gröner: Search list for ship names. ISBN 3-469-00553-2 .