The German torpedo batteries on Møre were located inside the fjords and were to block a possible Allied invasion together with cannon batteries and minefields. Torpedo battery Kolvik in Northern Norway is well known to us in Kristiansund, but there were also two other batteries on Møre at the end of the war.

Here, our home Kolvik Torpedo battery which was ready in the autumn of 1944. The tallow lake and the entrance to the North Sea fjords were to be controlled from here.

At Klauset on Otterya in the Moldefjord there was also a battery at the end of the war. Here the Germans were to control the entrance to the fjords together with two cannon batteries across the fjord; on Rekdal and on Lake Øveraa south of Vestnes. This is what the concrete colossus looks like today. The designation during the war was Torpedobatterie Otterõy Süd. The third battery is located in Julsundet on an islet. Torpedo tubes were early installed in a boathouse-like building, but were later built into a large bunker. There is also a cannon battery close by. All these torpedo batteries belonged to the navy, and were under the direction of the German naval commander in Molde.

Here torpedo tube on Julholmen camouflaged as a boathouse before the concrete bunker was completed in 1944. (Photo: Rolf Menge, Torpedo klarmachungskommando Mõre)