Hamnskär is a small outer island, located about 25
kilometers south of Loviisa.
The island is a popular bird monitoring place especially in spring and
autumn time.
As well as a wonderfull nature, there is a memorial of the sunken German
submarine UC37.
The memorial tells the submarine's
fate: "The November 17th - 1917 at twilight
arrived to Hamnskär German submarine UC57, bringing to Finland war needs.
With the submarine came Prussian jaeger battalion of the 27's men (the
list of
men's names). Men took part in Finland's freedom war."
"Early in the morning the
November 18th, 1917 went UC-57 return trip to
Germany, but it never arrived. Underwater crew (the list of Crew
members)... To those German men´s memory, who first sacrificed their
lives in
Finland's independence, this granite statue rises to telling us about the
great
period of Finland´s history, and after advice future generations to keep
inviolate
the freedom afforded."