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SS Afrika, a German cargo freighter was sailing from Narvik to Germany when the war broke out in Scandinavia. The crew took the vessel to Bergen where the Germans were stationed, and stayed there until a German admiral thought they could take the chance to send the vessel further towards Germany. The ship sailed under a false Dutch flag and was camouflaged with the name Frik by taking away the two a`s in her original name. The same night the vessel was boarded by the Norwegian torpedo boat Stegg in the Korsfjorden, which then led Afrika in to Ulvik where the vessel was taken in custody and the crew interned. The Norwegian soldiers suspected that it wouldn't take long before the Germans came to Ulvik, and therefore they escorted the vessel out in the fjord and sank her on the 17th of April 1940. The wreck of Afrika rests on her hull in approximately thirty meters of water. The cargo was later salvaged, by blowing the sides of the cargo hatches. The wreck of Afrika is marked on sea map # 118 and rests in Ulvik at a depth of seven to thirty meters. The Jane'R' is needed to reach the wreck