To browse Academia. It details the events leading up to her sinking, the crews involved in the attack, and provides insights into the wreck site based on a personal dive expedition conducted in Key imagery from both wartime and contemporary dives is presented to illustrate the condition of the wreck. International journal of social science and human research, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Rondeau C grief, the loss of these fossils caused veteran American fossil collector Charles H. The fossils collected by Sternberg and his youngest son Levi were the second of two shipments being sent by them to the British Museum Natural History in London, England for study and public display.
On the evening of April 6, , Oldenburg and several other German ships, part of a convoy en route to Germany from the northern Norwegian port of Narvik, split away and took refuge in the narrow harbour at the small town of Vadheim. The ships counted on protection from air attack provided by the steep mountain valley walls, which around the harbour reach heights of metres Anonymous, The attack on her lasted about 10 minutes Sognen, Higgins and Mirow, who were with Squadron eight months and veterans of twentynine dangerous operational sorties, were sadly killed several weeks later while leading an attack on enemy shipping and warehouses in South Vaagso, Norway Gordon, It seems likely these were motorcycles and other military equipment being evacuated back to Germany from the northern Russian front near Finland Halvor Sperbund, pers.
He rightly pointed out that most shipwrecks are surrounded by mystery and intrigue of which this was yet another example. G rowing public interest in the Mount Temple story and lost fossils led to a number of public lectures by the senior author and province-wide radio interviews, one of the latter linking the two authors. This was done in support of research for an ongoFigure 1. After sinking, she came to rest on a sloping site. This was done not down and away from the shore, pivoting about the only to alert people to our project, but also to have bow which now lies in shallower water.
We spent four and a half days in Vadheim, beginning our return home on the morning of March 6, stopping for a day and evening in London, England, and then returning to Canada on March 8. V adheim is a small town population roughly , founded some years ago in a remote part of southwestern Norway. Some local citizens believe the Vikings originated in or near this district.
