page_title: MS Palatia (1928)
section_title: Post-war wreck discovery and memorial
hierarchical_section_title: MS Palatia (1928) / Post-war wreck discovery and memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: Image from Lindesnes municipality, taken from Lindesnes Lighthouse towards the north. The "Pax Monument" is erected in memory of M/S Palatia which was torpedoed here by the English in 1942. Onboard where 986 russian prisoners-of-war, who all died. The statue is of "Russian bird" of the kind woodcut by so many russian prisoners-of-war during the war.
context_page_description: MS Palatia was a German liner, built in 1928. After serving for several years on the Hamburg America Line's route to the Caribbean, she was sold to the Soviet Union in 1940. Following the outbreak of war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941, she was captured by the Germans and pressed into Kriegsmarine service.
  She was sunk on 21 October 1942 by a Royal New Zealand Air Force torpedo bomber, while carrying a load of prisoners of war intended for slave labour in German-occupied Norway. In total, 986 people have later been reported killed in the incident; 915 prisoners, in addition to German soldiers and crew members.
context_section_description: During the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, the municipality of Lindesnes held a memorial service on 6 May 1995 in remembrance of the Palatia disaster. An exhibition with art and items relating to Palatia was also displayed.
  The wreck was located in 1997, by the Royal Norwegian Navy underwater search and recovery vessel Tyr. A memorial was raised at Lindesnes and unveiled by King Harald V of Norway on 21 September 1997. The memorial monument, titled Pax, was designed by sculptor Arne Vinje Gunnerud. Pax consists of a Common Buzzard in bronze with unfolded wings, on a platform of natural rock. The monument was built on the initiative of Sørlandet krigsminneforening (English: Southern Norway war memorial society) and Lindesnes municipality. A 986-strong choir, one singer for every life lost on the ship, sang at the unveiling of the monument.
caption: The memorial monument of MS Palatia, Pax by the Lindesnes Lighthouse, created by sculptor Arne Vinje Gunnerud
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