Condor Details Required

[schnellmeyer]

Can anybody please give me details on a FW 200 Condor that attacked a ship called The Austvard off the West coast of Ireland on 30 January 1941 . The Austvard was part of convoy SL62 but it had fallen behind and was on its own when attacked . It was hit by four bombs and 16 crew were killed and six survived . The ship later sank and the survivors were landed on the S.W. coast of Ireland . I would be very grateful for any information on the Condor that was involved in this attack , thanks.

[Marc BENOIT]

Hello,

I have a condor that attacked the norvegian ship Austvard, 3677 t, with 2 sc 250, at 380 km W of Donegal ( sank in 8 min )
Hope this helps
Marc

[Chris Goss]

All I have is I/KG 40 ac took off at 0615 hrs and attacked said ship (positively identified as Austvard) at 1050 hrs 380 kms west of Donegal with 2 x SC500 bombs and the ship took 8 minutes to sink

[schnellmeyer]

Thanks for the help Marc and Chris , is there any way of finding out the code of this Condor ? Also from which base did this plane fly from ? Three of the crew from the Austvard are buried in Dingle , Ireland . Last week I met a cousin of one of these men and they want to find out more details about the sinking , thanks again .

[Martin Gleeson]

Hallo Schnellmeyer,

There is good information on this ship and its crew on the warsailors.com website. This deals with Norwegian registered ships and there is also an excellent forum covering ships of all nations.

From the above it appears a boat with 6 survivors landed in Co. Kerry, one of whom died shortly afterwards. He is probably buried in Kerry, but where did your information about 3 buried there come from ?

I need to do a bit of digging in my notes. If I find anything I will post it.

Regards for now,

Martin Gleeson.

[schnellmeyer]

Thanks for your help Martin , as for the other two crew member that died , this information I got from the men I met last week . Their cousin was Jens Brandvold who passes away while on the life raft and the other two men were Alfred Andersen and karl Gustav . what I would love to know was what Condor sunk their boat ?