The Ervik church on Statlandet (about 60 km south-west of Ålesund) built 1970. It has been called Sanct Svithun's memory chapel in honour of the 47 persons that died during the shipwreck of the coastal voyager, the steamship "St. Svithun" on 30 September 1943. By mistake it was bombed by British planes and hung for some time on a reef outside Ervik before the waves brought her to rest in the deep. Brave local fishermen saved 76 passengers, and the ship's bell has become a church bell here in Ervik. (To avoid confusion: A coastal voyager by the name of M/S "St Svithun" hit a reef and sank 21 October 1962 on the coast of Trøndelag – 41 deaths)

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The Ervik church. The cars belong to people that has come here to surf on the ocean waves.

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The Ervik graveyard seems to be consecrated first time in the middle of the sixteenth Century, but was probably used long before that. This close to the ocean the soil is often too shallow for burials, but here drifting sand has made it more than deep enough. The bell house was built in 1908. After the church was finished this became redundant and since 2006 it has been used as a memorial room for 21 Russian prisoners of war that were buried here 1945–1953 (later moved to Lakesevåg, Bergen).

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