The Heroes of Telemark
Here in the story
At sea
To stop the last shipment of heavy water, the saboteurs target the passenger ferry that will carry it across the lake.
What happened here
In February 1944 the Germans tried to move Vemork's remaining heavy water stock to Germany by rail and across Lake Tinn on the ferry SF Hydro. On 20 February, explosives planted by Norwegian saboteur Knut Haukelid and his team sank the ferry in the lake's deepest water, sending the heavy water to the bottom. Eighteen people died, fourteen of them Norwegian crew and passengers.
Films and series set in Lake Tinn
The Heavy Water War
Here in the story
At sea
When the Germans try to ship the remaining heavy water out, the resistance faces a terrible choice about the civilian ferry.