D/S Steinstad

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Crew List


From the newspaper article mentioned below (hence the bad quality).

Final Fate - 1940:

Torpedoed on Febr. 15-1940 by U-26 (Scheringer) and sunk, 75 miles west of Aran Island, voyage from Turkey to Norway with a cargo of ore. Norway was still neutral at that time.

Jan-Olof, Sweden has sent me a copy of an old newspaper clipping related to the sinking of this ship, saying that Steinstad had been pursued by the U-boat all night before she was stopped with 2 shots in front of her bow at dawn on the 15th and the crew ordered to the lifeboats. Shortly afterwards an explosion was heard, the ship sinking almost immediately. The 2nd mate and 10 others were in the motorboat, while the captain and 12 men were in another lifeboat, which was towed by the motorboat for about 15 hours, but the captain's boat had eventually drifted away after the towline had broken. The captain had been washed overboard during the night leading up to Febr. 16 and had last been seen holding on to an oar. The 11 in the 2nd mate's boat arrived Arranmore Island on Febr. 20, so exhausted they had to be aided ashore by the locals. An aircraft search was conducted for the missing boat (which had sails), but it was never found.

Crew List:

Survivors
2nd Mate Harris Nilsen	Able Seaman Gotfred Karlsen	Able Seaman Alf A. Hardy	Jr. Ordinary Seaman Charles P. Molland	Steward Gustav Svenningsen	1st Engineer Ole A. Berg
2nd Engineer Petter Quitzau	Donkeyman Magnus Knutsen	Stoker Johan Jørgensen	Stoker Peder Knutsen	Trimmer Viktor Vidala
In the missing lifeboat were:
† Captain Ludvik Nilsen	† 1st Mate Adolf F. Engebretsen	† Boatswain Sven Olsen	† Able Seaman Johan Johansen	† Ordinary Seaman Alf H. Nilsen	† Ordinary Seaman Aage Martinsen
† Deck Boy Einar Haakonsen	† Cook Harald Nikolai Olsen	† Mess Boy Trygve Olsen	† 3rd Engineer Nils R. Hovden	† Stoker Olaf Abrahamsen	† Stoker Willi Henriksen
† Stoker Bjarne Olaf Hansen

Related external links:
Stavern Memorial commemorations - 14 are commemorated, including Petter Quitzau who's listed among the survivors in the article - he might have died later on, or in a separate incident(?). The site says Steinstad was on a voyage from Turkey to Bjølvefoss.

U-26

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