Dora II

[1] Following the occupation of Norway in 1940, it was soon realised that the country only had limited facilities for minor naval repairs.

The capitulation of France two months later overshadowed the strategic importance of Norway to some extent, but it was still regarded as a better location for access to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans than Germany.

Nevertheless, better protection for U-boats from aerial attack was required so a bunker-building programme was instigated.

[3] The German civil and military engineering group, Organisation Todt, started constructing the facility as a submarine base as they were finishing Dora I (completed in June 1943).

[7] Dora II is used as a shipyard[4] and as a warehouse and garage for boats and cars by companies such as Trondheim Verft AS[8] and Skipsmaling AS.