Depth
17 m
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On Friday 21.8.2020 afternoon we had returned from the Delphin wreck. Very quickly unloaded all the tanks that were towed on the trailer to base to be filled for us. Then had quick soup lunch at the pier. Then 2 hours of surface time at the Soru harbor. There was a Jazz festival, shop, bar, nice beach, so plenty of things to do.
Finally around 15 our tanks returned, we loaded them to RIB boat, and headed to the Gullkrona wreck. Sea was totally calm, wind had stopped, sun was shining brightly and I made the boat ride topless as it was so hot. Then at destination, a shot was dropped, me and Leppis went down as last. It was shallow, only 16 m and very bright, visibility 5 to 10 m. The wreck was huge, but the hull was buried in sand. We dived to stern first, then to bow. At the stern there was the huge rudder pin, and a pot discovered from the sand. At the bow there was an anchor and the ship’s bell. Then we dived to the 2 anchors that were pretty far away from the wreck. The anchors with their chains were ripped off the ship with bollards as the ice sheets took the ship and then cut the hull into pieces. It was an interesting wreck to see. Again, the dive operation went fine without any issues for everyone on the boat. We returned to the harbor in nice sunshine, but suddenly rising wind and returned back to Randmae for dinner and sauna.
S/S Gullkrona was a 4 masted Finnish schooner that got stuck into ice sheets near Hiidenmaa January 1941. The local Estonian people were able to recue all the crew before the ship sank. The crew eventually were able to return to Finland, after being interrogated by the Soviets.
Story about the rescue of the S/S Gullkrona crew on January 11, 1941 at Hiiumaa can be found from the book “Elutöö ühe ööga. Soome kuunari Gullkrona meeskonna päästmine Hiiumaa rannikul 1941”, Jegard Kõmmus, Sende Lipu, Helen Kõmmus, 2015, ISBN: 978-9949-544-55-4.
http://www.folklore.ee/era/pub/files/Gullkrona_valik.pdf
“On the night of January 11, 1941, near the shore of the crew of the Finnish cargo ship Gullkrona, which was in distress at sea. "It feels indescribably good when you can give a person back the life he is losing. It was a life's work in one night. ", Jegard Kõmmus
How the wreck was found in 2018:
https://veeteedeamet.ee/en/news/18-new-wrecks-discovered-ma-2018
The hydrographers of the Estonian Maritime Administration surveyed about 1,662 square kilometres of the waters in Estonia in the navigational season of 2018 and discovered, among other things, 18 new wrecks. “We believe we have also found the location of the Finnish four-mast sailing boat Gullkrona that sank in 1941,” describes Mr Peeter Väling, Head of the Hydrography Department the results of this year’s efforts.
Newspaper article: https://ekspress.delfi.ee/ajalugu/hiiumaa-meremeeste-hulljulge-paasteretk?id=72207629
Updated 2025-11-23 Place was S/S Gullkrona
Finally around 15 our tanks returned, we loaded them to RIB boat, and headed to the Gullkrona wreck. Sea was totally calm, wind had stopped, sun was shining brightly and I made the boat ride topless as it was so hot. Then at destination, a shot was dropped, me and Leppis went down as last. It was shallow, only 16 m and very bright, visibility 5 to 10 m. The wreck was huge, but the hull was buried in sand. We dived to stern first, then to bow. At the stern there was the huge rudder pin, and a pot discovered from the sand. At the bow there was an anchor and the ship’s bell. Then we dived to the 2 anchors that were pretty far away from the wreck. The anchors with their chains were ripped off the ship with bollards as the ice sheets took the ship and then cut the hull into pieces. It was an interesting wreck to see. Again, the dive operation went fine without any issues for everyone on the boat. We returned to the harbor in nice sunshine, but suddenly rising wind and returned back to Randmae for dinner and sauna.
S/S Gullkrona was a 4 masted Finnish schooner that got stuck into ice sheets near Hiidenmaa January 1941. The local Estonian people were able to recue all the crew before the ship sank. The crew eventually were able to return to Finland, after being interrogated by the Soviets.
Story about the rescue of the S/S Gullkrona crew on January 11, 1941 at Hiiumaa can be found from the book “Elutöö ühe ööga. Soome kuunari Gullkrona meeskonna päästmine Hiiumaa rannikul 1941”, Jegard Kõmmus, Sende Lipu, Helen Kõmmus, 2015, ISBN: 978-9949-544-55-4.
http://www.folklore.ee/era/pub/files/Gullkrona_valik.pdf
“On the night of January 11, 1941, near the shore of the crew of the Finnish cargo ship Gullkrona, which was in distress at sea. "It feels indescribably good when you can give a person back the life he is losing. It was a life's work in one night. ", Jegard Kõmmus
How the wreck was found in 2018:
https://veeteedeamet.ee/en/news/18-new-wrecks-discovered-ma-2018
The hydrographers of the Estonian Maritime Administration surveyed about 1,662 square kilometres of the waters in Estonia in the navigational season of 2018 and discovered, among other things, 18 new wrecks. “We believe we have also found the location of the Finnish four-mast sailing boat Gullkrona that sank in 1941,” describes Mr Peeter Väling, Head of the Hydrography Department the results of this year’s efforts.
Newspaper article: https://ekspress.delfi.ee/ajalugu/hiiumaa-meremeeste-hulljulge-paasteretk?id=72207629
Updated 2025-11-23 Place was S/S Gullkrona
Tanks
Main tank
- Volume
- 12,0 l
- Press. Start
- 207 bar
- Press. End
- 124 bar
- O2%
- 31,0%