German: Bungsberg was a cargo steamship. She was built in 1924 in Germany in 1924 German: Eva. In 1939 she was renamed twice: firstly as German: Götaälv, and then as German: Bungsberg. A mine sank her off the coast of Estonia in 1943. Her wreck is now a site for wreck diving.
In 1922 and 1923, Howaldtswerke in Kiel built three sister ships fpr Deutsche Levante-Linie. Yard number 643 was built in 1922 as German: Troja; yard number 644 was built in 1923 as German: Kreta; and yard number 645 was built in 1923 as German: Syra. Hamburg America Line owned German: Troja and German: Syra; and German: Bremer Dampfer Linie „Atlas“|italic=no owned German: Kreta; but German: Deutsche Levante-Linie|italic=no managed all three.
Also in 1924, German: Howaldtswerke|italic=no built a fourth ship, to the same design, but for German: China Reederei|italics=no. She was built as yard number 646, and launched as German: Eva. Her length was ; her beam was ; and her depth was . Her tonnages were and . She had a single screw; driven by a three-cylinder triple-expansion engine that was rated at 143 NHP. She was equipped with submarine signalling. She was registered in Hamburg. Her code letters were RFHP.
By 1930, Jebsen & Jessen were German: Evas managers, but by 1931, August Bolten William Miller’s Nachfolger had succeeded them. By 1934, her wireless telegraph call sign was DHHB, and this had superseded her code letters. By 1938, German: August Bolten William Miller’s Nachfolger|italics=no owned German: Eva as well as managing her. In 1939 she was renamed German: Götaälv, but later that year she was renamed German: Bungsberg, after Bungsberg, a hill that is the highest point in Holstein.
On 24 March 1943, German: Bungsberg struck one of a set of mines that had been laid across the Suurupi Strait. She sank off Naissaar, at position . Her wreck lies on an even keel, at a depth of . The captain of a fishing trawler discovered the wreck in 1984, and told the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn. The Museum fixed the position of the wreck on 15 June 1988, during a sonar testing operation by the Estonian Geology Administration. The Museum identified the wreck in 1992. On 2 July 2011 the wreck was added to the Estonian National Register of Cultural Monuments.[1]
The engine order telegraph and some papers were salvaged from the wreck, and are kept at the Estonian Maritime Museum. Her funnel, mizzen mast, and the upper part of her bridge are missing. Damage from the mine explosion is clearly visible on her starboard bow. All four of her cargo holds are empty. recreational divers now visit the wreck.