Walking through the streets of Oslo, you might come across a ship anchor set up on the Aker Brygge quay(formerly an industrial district of the capital of Norway, now a place famous for its good restaurants, shops, nightclubs and high-standard apartments). I was curious what an ordinary anchor in the city center does, but it turned out that it is not so ordinary. In addition, it is related to the story of a certain German ship. I assume that the story is an obligatory subject of history lessons in Norwegian schools, but probably not many people outside of Scandinavia have heard of it (maybe except of historians and naval battle…