According to the ship's official cargo documents, there were 360 tonnes of goods on board and 1,083 refugees. The divers suspected that the Karlsruhe may contain the lost treasure. On its final ...

Initial expeditions revealed military vehicles, china and sealed chests stowed away in the ship’s hold. The AP reports that Soviet forces sank the Karlsruhe while it was participating in ...

Norwegian power grid operator Statnett said the cruiser Karlsruhe was identified more than 1,600 feet underwater from sonar images. Launched in 1927, the 571-foot ship led the attack on the ...

china and sealed chests in the ship's hold, all in good condition. "It looks like, after months of searching, we have finally found the wreckage of the Karlsruhe steamer," the Baltictech group ...

Karlsruhe, however ... this was the largest and most fearsome ship in the attack group against Kristiansand.” Per NRK, the Norwegian Coastal Administration will now monitor the ship, as ...

“You can find Karlsruhe’s fate in history books, but no one has known exactly where the ship sunk,” said Frode Kvalø, archaeologist and researcher at the Norwegian Maritime Museum, in a ...

The German navy ship Karlsruhe, measuring 174 meters (571 feet), took part in the WWII invasion of Norway. After troops had disembarked on April 9, 1940, the ship was hit by Norwegian artillery ...

The ROV, which was tethered to the offshore support ship Olympic Taurus, sent back detailed images that suggested the wreck was that of the German cruiser Karlsruhe. "When the ROV results showed ...

It was around that time that the Karlsruhe steamer set sail in 1945 with a heavy cargo - but what lay aboard the ship has remained a mystery after Soviet warplanes sunk the vessel off the Polish ...

By a curious coincidence, the wrecked ship has the same name — Karlsruhe— as a WWII German warship found off Norway last month, which was sunk in 1940. Both ships were named after a city in ...