Main artillery: Four 10,5 cm. K.331(f)
Ready for battle: August 1942
This battery was located two places near Vemelsvik before if was finally placed
at today's location. It came as a replacement battery a battery that was
out-battled and demolished during the British commando raid on Måløy
in 1941. Out of the four cannons, two were built around a pivot by the end of the war,
while the other two still stood on theur wheels. The battery was never completed.
The command bunker was just a dugged down shed, while they were waiting for a
new and solid one in concrete to be finished. This bunker was never completed.
A staircase was supposed to go from the tunnel and up in the command bunker.
The tunnel is not concreted, and not completed. Allegedly, a torpedo-battery
was going to be embedded in the rock or built in a concrete bunker at the
end of the tunnel, but the war was over before the construction on the
torpedo battery was started. Russian POW's were used as labour while building
the tunnel and bunkers, and was lead by O.T. A gun-bunker was built on a cliff
north-west of the battery site, but no gun was installed by the end of the war.
It was most likely a Kwk. that was to be installed as close defence for the battery.
After the war, the battery was to be included as a Norwegian coastal battery, and then completed.
But in the fifties it was closed down, still in the same condition as in 1945. The four guns
stood on the site until 1982, when two was removed for museum purposes in other parts of
the country, and the other two dugged down in two bunkers, still on the site.
The battery is easy accessible, but be sure to get permission from the
land-owner before entering. Some of the emplacements
can be difficult to reach due to heavy under- and overgrowth.
On the way out to the battery, one will drive past the place where one
can walk down to Torpedo-Batterie Angelshaug.
Be sure not to miss that spot while you are there.
One of the entrances to the tunnel
A "window" in one of the accommodation bunkers
Gunposition for 10,5 cm K.331(f)
Another gunposition
View on one of the Flak positions, Flak 38
The west-exit of the tunnel. This is where the torpedobattery was to be built
