HNoMS B-5 was a Norwegian B-class submarine which was captured by an E-boat of the Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during Operation Weserübung on 9 April...
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exiled Royal Norwegian Navy before completion and renamed HNoMS Uredd. She and one of the B-class in 1940 have so far been the only Norwegian submarines...
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HNoMS Eskdale (pennant number L36) was an escort destroyer of the Type III Hunt class. The destroyer served with the Royal Norwegian Navy. It was sunk...
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submarine launched in 1915 and lost in 1917 UC-1, formerly the B-class submarine HNoMS B-5 captured from Norway in 1940 German Type UC I submarine This...
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The Norwegian warship HNoMS Rap was a torpedo boat built in 1873. She was one of the first torpedo boats to carry the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo...
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submarine HMS Seal (N37) UC-1: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-5 UC-2: ex Norwegian submarine HNoMS B-6 UD-1: ex Dutch submarine HNLMS O 8 UD-2: ex Dutch...
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USS Hopewell (DD-181) (redirect from HNoMS Bath (I17))
(I17), as a Town-class destroyer, and then to the Royal Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Bath. Bath was torpedoed while escorting a trans-Atlantic convoy on 19 August...
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HNoMS Svenner was a Royal Norwegian Navy destroyer during the Second World War. She was built for the Royal Navy as the S-class destroyer HMS Shark but...
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HMCS Toronto (K538) (redirect from HNoMS Valkyrien (1965))
by the Royal Norwegian Navy and renamed Garm and then again in 1965 as HNoMS Valkyrien . Toronto was ordered 1 February 1943 as Giffard (after Giffard...
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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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Norske Marine (Royal Norwegian Navy). In English, they are given the prefix "HNoMS", short for "His/Her Norwegian Majesty's Ship" ("HNMS" could be also used...
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Four Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyers, HNoMS Gyller (1938), HNoMS Odin (1939), HNoMS Tor (1939), & HNoMS Balder (1939) were captured in 1940. All four...
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Oslofjord. Late on 8 April 1940 the guard vessel spotted the German Kampfgruppe 5 heading north as part of the German invasion of Norway. Despite being seriously...
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HNoMS Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship, Harald Haarfagre, and the...
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HNoMS Bergen was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy as HMS Cromwell. She was built by Scotts of Greenock between 1944 and 1946 and initially...
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HNoMS Trondheim was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy as HMS Croziers. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun during 1944 and 1945...
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Navy HNoMS Stord S-class destroyer HNoMS Svenner S-class destroyer HNoMS Glaisdale Hunt-class destroyer HNoMS Andenes Flower-class corvette HNoMS Eglantine...
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HNoMS Otra was an Otra-class minesweeper built in 1939 for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Captured by the Germans during the 1940 invasion of Norway and renamed...
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HNoMS Tyr was a Gor-class Rendel gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Karljohansverns Verft Naval Yard in Horten. She was laid down in 1884 and...
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Altmark was escorted southwards by the torpedo boats HNoMS Skarv and HNoMS Kjell and the guard boat HNoMS Firern. Altmark was then spotted off Egersund later...
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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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boats: HNoMS Storm (P960), HNoMS Blink (P961), HNoMS Glimt (P962), HNoMS Skjold (P963), HNoMS Trygg (P964), HNoMS Kjekk (P965), HNoMS Djerv (P966), HNoMS Skudd...
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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 Thorodd was a Royal Norwegian Navy patrol ship and minesweeper that served through the Second World War, first during the Norwegian Campaign that...
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training exercises, the ship was pronounced ready for service with the fleet on 5 April 1940. She was armed with a main battery of eight 20.3 cm (8 in) guns...
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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 Kjell was the final ship of twenty-seven 2nd class torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, launched at the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard...
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HMS Zetland (L59) (redirect from HNoMS Tromsø (L59))
L59. Zetland was given to the Royal Norwegian Navy and commissioned as HNoMS Tromsø. She was sold for breaking up in 1965. HMS Zetland was ordered from...
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help. Help arrived before the boat could leave, when the naval trawler HNoMS Honningsvåg came from Iceland four days later, responding to the emergency...
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