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...

Æger after Ægir, the Jötunn king of the sea in Norse mythology: HNoMS Æger (1894), a 2.-class gunboat in service from 1894 to 1932. HNoMS Æger (1936)...

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...

(1938–1959) In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948. Æger (1936–1940) Sunk by German bombers on 9 April 1940, at the beginning of Operation...

was built for the Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR) in 1936. In 1939 the Kriegsmarine requisitioned her; had her converted into an auxiliary...

built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms...

Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War the ship spent part of 1936 and 1937 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain...

discovered on 5 March 2008 by the Royal Norwegian Navy mine control vessel HNoMS Tyr, after being unknown for nearly 70 years, and will be marked as a war...

eight-legged horse of Odin. The armament within the class varied slightly. Æger had the armament listed in the article info-box. Sleipner, the lead ship...

de Janeiro 9 Apr: HNoMS Æger, Blücher, HNoMS Eidsvold, HMS Gurkha, German cruiser Karlsruhe, HNoMS Norge, Seattle, Sørland, HNoMS Tor 10 Apr: Albatros...

of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered on 10 March 1936 from Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering and was laid down on 6 July at...

amidships with a crane to handle floatplanes. On her last training cruise in 1936, Karlsruhe was badly damaged by a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean. Structural...

destroyers under the 1936 Naval Estimates, Eskimo was the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered on 19 June 1936 from Vickers-Armstrong...

Stavanger Roda (cargo ship) (captured and sunk on 9 April by Norwegian destroyer Æger) Objectives Kristiansand and Arendal Warship Group Four – Kapitän zur See...

de Janeiro 9 Apr: HNoMS Æger, Blücher, HNoMS Eidsvold, HMS Gurkha, German cruiser Karlsruhe, HNoMS Norge, Seattle, Sørland, HNoMS Tor 10 Apr: Albatros...

Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed a few months before the...

built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms...

Z17 Diether von Roeder was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed in 1938, the ship spent...

Mediterranean, sometimes as a flagship. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, she was one of the ships that helped to enforce the non-intervention...

which had been re-named before launch. Bittern was laid down on 27 August 1936 by J. Samuel White, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, launched on 14 July 1937 and...

to be unreliable when used in the destroyers. After being commissioned in 1936 Brummer worked up in the Baltic Sea, and was then attached to the Naval Air...

Z22 Anton Schmitt was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed after the beginning of World...

Kiel on 22 March 1935 as yard number G535. She was launched on 27 March 1936 and completed on 2 July 1938. Wolfgang Zenker participated in the August...

Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was ordered on 21 November 1936 and laid down on 15 September 1938 at the yards of Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft...

submarine. Later that night the group encountered the Norwegian patrol boat HNoMS Pol III in heavy fog at 23:00. After firing a warning shot and realizing...

She was built by Cochrane & Sons, Selby and was launched on 31 October 1936. As a fishing vessel of the Bunch Steam Fishing company she was registered...

Germania, Kiel on 26 March 1935 as yard number G537. She was launched on 8 July 1936 and completed on 6 July 1938. When World War II began in September 1939,...

Z19 Hermann Künne was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed at the beginning of 1939, the...

Z18 Hans Lüdemann was one of six Type 1936 destroyers built for the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) in the late 1930s. Completed in 1938, the ship spent most...

protection duties, commanding the destroyer Æger. During the first day of the German invasion of Norway, Æger intercepted a German supply ship, which Bruun...