A murder-suicide took place on board Viggo Hansteen in August 1944, while the ship was at Naples (some sources say Piombino);[3] Canadian radio operator Maude Steane is reported to have been shot by another crew member in his cabin, who then killed himself.

At 2:30 am on 24 April 1952, the Viggo Hansteen while on a voyage from London, via Panama, to Port Chalmers and Wellington with new British cars and bagged cement ran aground two miles northeast of the Katiki Point Lighthouse near Moeraki.

[5] The vessel was on a voyage from Jakarta to Bunbury when, on 20 March 1963, it struck a reef off the Beagle Islands, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the Western Australian coast, near Eneabba.

[6][7] After the settlement of a dispute concerning payment for the repairs, Alkimos left Fremantle under tow by an ocean-going tug, Pacific Reserve from Hong Kong.

[citation needed] After that time, the partly dismantled remains of the ship sat in several metres of water, visible to visitors, before gradually disintegrating.