SIRIUSSirius was a 877 GRT steamship built for the Bergenske Dampskipseskap (Bergen Steamship Company) in 1885 in Flensburg. Later on chartered as a passenger ferry by Hurtigruten. In 1927 she was stripped of its cabins and turned into a cargo ship running on a Oslo - Finnmark line. On 18th May 1940, while on her journey from Røsneshavn do Risøyhavnb, she was bombed by a German airplane and sank off Dyrøya. Out of 18 people crew 11 survived the attack. She rests on her port side lying on ~ 60 m depth.
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