She sank very quickly and all on board had to jump into the sea, as it was impossible to lower the lifeboats.
The coastal steamer Skjerstad came by, and when she discovered that she was moving among people crying for help in the water, she stopped and managed to take on board 19 survivors as well as 15 bodies.
The temperature in the water was about 7-8 °C. Skjerstad called for further assistance by using the ship's sirens.
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In these rise feeders of the Swedish rivers Lilla Lule and Pite, flowing south-east.
Westward, the foothills descend upon the Skjerstad Fjord, above which are two lakes, Nedre and Ovre Vand.
From Sjohstaa steamers on the Langvand and a light railway give communication between the sea and Furulund, the headquarters of the Swedish Sulitelma Mining Company.
New company created for her on July 1-1927, Det Nordlandske Dampskibsselskap, Bodø (this was due to the newly established rules in Norway, stating that financial State support could not be received if a company's routes competed with its own or other State supported routes), continued in the same service.
When the news of the German invasion was received on Apr. 9-1940 Skjerstad was on her way south to Trondheim, which was now in German control.
She proceeded to Rørvik, then to Namsos where some of her cargo was unloaded, before heading back towards Bodø, unloading the remaining cargo at the ports in which it had been taken onboard.
The height difference of the sea surface can be as much as 1 meter or 3 feet between the inside and the outside of the narrow sound.
In the local museum it is possible to see objects from the iron age, but most of the items on the exhibition are from the last and this century.
In Sundstraumen, an other and much smaller maelstrom that together with Saltstraumen fills the Skjerstad fjord, you can find a cut in the rocks that look like it has been made by an ax.
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The bridge goes over the narrowest part of Salten and Skjerstad fjord.
< The water runs through Saltstraumen with a speed over 20 knots or nearly 40 km/t two times a day, when the tide tries to fill up water into Salten or Skjerstad fjord.
It could be up to 1 m height difference on the sea between outside and inside of the two fjords.
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Reiselivsbasen: Tourist Information Offices Skjerstad / Nordland / Norway
Minnebok : gamle fotografier fra Beiarn, Bodø, Gildeskål, Meløy, Rødøy og Skjerstad / [redaksjon: Solfrid Lorentzen, Harry Ellingsen og Nina Badendyck].
På tur : Beiarn Gildeskål Meløy Skjerstad = Turboka.
Samvirkelag i samvirkeland : forbrukerkooperasjonen i Beiarn og Skjerstad 1915-1997.
