• HNoMS Tor was a Sleipner-class destroyer of the Royal Norwegian Navy that was launched in September 1939. She was under outfitting and testing when Nazi...
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  • and wrecked on the way to scrapping in 1919. HNoMS Tor (1939) was a Sleipner-class destroyer launched in 1939. In 1940 she was captured by the Germans and...
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    HNoMS Odin was a Sleipner-class destroyer that entered service with the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1939. She and the other Sleipner-class vessels were built...
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  • Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyers, HNoMS Gyller (1938), HNoMS Odin (1939), HNoMS Tor (1939), & HNoMS Balder (1939) were captured in 1940. All four ships...
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  • HNoMS Gyller (1938), renamed Löwe and HNoMS Odin (1939), renamed Panther were captured at Kristiansand. HNoMS Tor (1939), renamed Tiger and HNoMS Balder (1939)...
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    HNoMS Norge was a coastal defence ship of the Eidsvold class in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle on Tyne, she was torpedoed...
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    HNoMS Eidsvold was a coastal defence ship and the lead ship of her class, serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle...
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    The minelayer HNoMS Frøya was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the naval shipyard in Horten during World War I, with yard number 108. A fast ship...
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    HNoMS Nordkapp was the lead ship of the Nordkapp class of fishery protection vessels. She was launched 18 August 1937 at Horten naval shipyard, with yard...
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    Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-7822-0487-3. Fjeld, Odd T; Tor Jørgen Melien; Jan Egil Fjørtoft; Tor Georg Monsen; Reidar Lauritz Godø; Robert Eichinger (1999)...
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    HNoMS Trygg (trygg is Norwegian for safe, secure, dependable) was a torpedo boat of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Her hull was built in Moss and she was finished...
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    HNoMS Sleipner was a destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1936. The lead ship of the Sleipner class, she gained near-legendary status...
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    HNoMS Æger was a Sleipner-class destroyer launched at Karljohansvern naval shipyard in Horten in 1936. The Sleipner class was part of a Norwegian rearmament...
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    build no. 429 in 1926. She was requisitioned by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1939 and pressed into service as a guard vessel in the Oslofjord. Late on 8 April...
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    HNoMS Sæl was the penultimate vessel of the ten 1. class torpedo boats of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built at the Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard...
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    HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-class destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1938. Along with the other Sleipner-class vessels in commission...
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    Kiel on 3 November 1938. She was launched on 1 November 1939 and commissioned on 12 December 1939 by Kapitänleutnant (Kptlt.) Max-Hermann Bauer, who was...
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    HNoMS Draug was the lead ship of the three-ship Draug class of destroyers built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the years 1908–1913. The four-stacked...
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  • one unnamed ordered Royal Norwegian Naval Basic Training Establishment, HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, Stavanger Royal Norwegian Navy Officer Candidate School...
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    HNoMS Garm was the third destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and was a Draug class destroyer. Garm was constructed several years after her two...
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    class, and served from November 1929 to May 1938, and again from November 1939 to April 1940, seeing action in World War II. She was operated by two German...
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    The last of the Trygg class of Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boats was HNoMS Stegg. Her sister ships were Trygg and Snøgg. The Trygg class vessels were...
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    Passage, was christened in honour of Maud of Wales. The replenishment ship HNoMS Maud of the Royal Norwegian Navy has also been named for her. The Queen...
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    HNoMS Honningsvåg was a naval trawler that served throughout the Second World War as a patrol boat in the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was launched at the...
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    HNoMS Brand was a 1.-class torpedo boat constructed in 1898. She served the Royal Norwegian Navy for more than four decades, including neutrality protection...
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    HNoMS Heimdal was a Norwegian warship built at Akers mekaniske verksted in Kristiania, Norway in 1892 with build number 137. She was built to patrol Norwegian...
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    on her voyage to Aden later that month. During night exercises on 16 May 1939, Glowworm collided with her sister, Grenade, and was forced to put into Alexandria...
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    her southward through Norwegian coastal waters. HNoMS Draug took her as far as Stavanger, where HNoMS Gyller took over. On the evening of 8 April Gyller...
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  • launched in 1928 and sunk in a collision in 1939 German torpedo boat Tiger (1940), the Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Tor captured by Germany in 1940 and renamed...
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    Civil War in the late 1930s. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, she laid defensive minefields in the North Sea and then participated in...
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