High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Storstad was a 6,000 ton Norwegian collier (coal freighter), built in 1910 in Newcastle upon Tyne, owned by A. F. Klaveness Co. She was torpedoed and sunk during World War I on March 8, 1917 by U-62 at 51 20′N 11 50′W / 51.333 N 11.833 W / 51.333; -11.833.