SS Henry

History
Sweden
Name:	Wasa
Owner:	Ångfartygs-A/B Nornan
Port of registry:	Gothenburg
Builder:	Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstad, Gothenburg, Sweden
Yard number:	132
Launched:	1907
Completed:	June 1907
Fate:	Sold to Egil Krogh in 1925
Norway
Name:	Henry
Owner:	Egil Krogh
Port of registry:	Haugesund
Acquired:	1925
Out of service:	13 February 1944
Fate:	Sunk by Royal Norwegian Navy MTBs
General characteristics
Tonnage:	628 GT
Beam:	8.6 m (28.22 ft)
Propulsion:	Steam engine
Notes:	All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from

SS Henry was a Norwegian steam-powered cargo ship best known for being one of the two ships sunk in one of the most controversial incidents in Norway during the Second World War.

Henry was built in 1907 for the Swedish company Ångfartygs-A/B Nornan of Gothenburg. She sailed for her original owner until she was sold to Egil Krogh in Norway in 1925. After she was sold to the Norwegian company her tonnage was changed from 604 to 628 gross tons. Following the German invasion of Norway in 1940 she came under German overall control, continuing to sail along the coast of occupied Norway.

In the evening of 13 February 1944 Henry was sailing along the coast near Hustadvika Bay by Hestskjær Lighthouse off the port of Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal county. She was carrying a cargo of rocks from the Aust-Agder town of Risør northwards along the coastline. In addition to the Norwegians on board Henry she carried four German Army Gefreiters. At 1837hrs the SS Irma, a Hurtigruten passenger ship that had just overtaken Henry, was struck and sunk by what later turned out to be torpedoes fired from MTB 627, a Royal Norwegian Navy Motor Torpedo Boat. As Henry launched two of her lifeboats she too was torpedoed, by the other Royal Norwegian Navy Motor Torpedo Boat present, MTB 653. One of the two lifeboats were brought ashore at Hestskjær Lighthouse by the lighthouse keeper and later brought into Kristiansund.

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