Memorial statue Scandinavian Star

The slightly squeezed statue in front of you is the memorial to the catastrophic fire on the car ferry Scandinavian Star in 1990. On the night of April 7, the ferry sailed from Oslo to Fredrikshavn in Denmark, but when it crossed the Skagerak, the fire alarm went off at two in the morning. In the hours that followed, several fires broke out elsewhere on board which indicated that they were arson. Scandinavian Star was towed to Lysekil in Sweden, where the fire was finally extinguished. 158 people were then killed, one person later died of injuries. Most of the dead were Norwegians. This is the biggest ship disaster in recent Norwegian history. The cause of the fire has never been clarified.