I am searching a mysterious loss of a german? warship outside Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), Gulf of Bothnia, Finland in WW II. According to three wittnesses (on board of a passing-by tug boat) a "dark" foreign vessel had explosed and sunk. Later on, several corpses were drifted to the shore an some were found even from the nets of some local fishermen.
The only possible reference to the case can be found from the war journal of the coast-guards unit of Ostrobothnia - it says that in the sixth of june 1944 two corpses were transported to Vaasa and delivered to the commandant´s office - quite a strange address for dead bodies? The journal states also that the commander of the coast-guard unit visited Jakobstad 5-6. 1944 where he was "doing some arrangements". So, if I make a hazard guess, it may be possible that the event described above took place in early june 1944. Still, any information would be very welcome.
An other german war loss is told to be happened in the Gulf of Bothnia during the war of Lapland in autumn 1944. It is said that a finnish fighter destroyed outside Kokkola (Gamlakarleby, very near to Jakobstad) a german ship which was whitdrawing from Kemi. Again, it seems that no further information can be found from finnish archives. (It may well be that thes two stories are somehow neglegted.)
Anyway, the archive of the finnish salvage company Neptun states that two war ships were lost in the Gulf of Bothnia during WW II. My question is: which were them?