Main artillery: Three 10,5 cm. K.(n)
Ready for battle: August 1942
A battery/platoon located on the shores of the strait Frøysjøen, opposite
HKB 4./981 Skarsten
on the other side of the strait. It was meant to co-operate with the latter to block the
entrance to the important wharf in Svelgen, and the entrance to the Nordfjord from South-West.
The battery was not finished when the war ended, and some of the installations were temporarily
built, there among the 'leitstand'. A new one was to be built, blasted into the rock, but they never got
any further than blasting out a hole on the floor of the cliffs. There were only three
guns of the main artillery on the site, and one Kwk. All the emplacements were well built with
bunkers for sheltering and ammunition. A few other bunkers was built as well, there among a
main ammunition bunker. The battery/platoon was closed down just after the war, and the weapons removed.
Today the battery is partly on private property, but is easy accessible. All the positions and bunkers are
more or less intact and visible, apart from a few bunkers that are closed by dumps of rocks.
Something that is a bit unusual, is that all the original ammunition boxes are left in the
main ammunition bunker. When the ammunition was to be dumped after the war, all the grenades were taken out
of the boxes, and the boxes were put back on the shelves in the bunker, where they still are. A strange way of doing it.
Bunker in connection to a gun emplacement.
Position for searchlight.
One of the three gun emplacements.
These are left in all the positions.
One of the rooms in the main ammunition bunker, with most of the boxes, that each
took two grenades, intact.
