It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image.
Hitra | HNoMS Norge | HNoMS ''Vigra'' | HNoMS Vigra | HNoMS Start | HNoMS Olav Tryggvason | HNoMS Eidsvold | HNoMS Valkyrjen | HNoMS ''Olav Tryggvason'' | HNoMS ''Norge'' | Bjørnson's coffin during transfer to Norway on the ''HNoMS Norge |