HNoMS Tordenskjold
| Tordenskjold in 1900 Tordenskjold in 1900 | |
| Career (Norway) | Norwegian Navy flag |
|---|---|
| Name: | Tordenskjold |
| Namesake: | Peter Tordenskjold |
| Ordered: | 1896 |
| Laid down: | 1897 |
| Launched: | 18 March 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 21 March 1898 |
| Captured: | by the Germans in 1940 |
| Career (Nazi Germany) | 60px |
| Name: | Nymphe |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Fate: | Handed back to Norway after VE Day |
| Service record | |
|---|---|
| Operations: | Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany |
| Career (Norway) | Norwegian Navy flag |
| Name: | Tordenskjold |
| Acquired: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1948 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type: | Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship |
| Displacement: | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
| Length: | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion: | Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.9 knots (19.4 mph; 31.3 km/h) |
| Complement: | 245 |
| Armament: |
• 2 × 21 cm (8 in)/45 guns • 6 × 12 cm (5 in)/45 guns • 6 × 7.6 cm (3 in)/40 guns • 6 × 1-pounder QF guns • 2 × 45 cm (18 in) submerged torpedo tubes |
| Armour: |
Belt : 7 in (178 mm) Turrets : 8 in (203 mm) |
| General characteristics after German rebuild | |
| Displacement: | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
| Length: | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion: | Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.9 knots (19.4 mph; 31.3 km/h) |
| Complement: | 245 |
| Armament: |
• 6 × 10.5 cm AA guns • 2 × 40 mm AA guns • 14 × 20 mm AA guns[1] |
| Armour: |
Belt : 7 in (178 mm) Turrets : 8 in (203 mm) |
HNoMS Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister-ship Harald Haarfagre, and the slightly newer Eidsvold-class were built as a part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Tordenskjold remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid 1930s.
Description
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All but identical to her sister-ship Harald Haarfagre, Tordenskjold was named after Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, an eminent Norwegian naval hero in the service of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. Built as a typical pre-dreadnought battleship on a small scale, she carried guns of a wide range of calibers.
Service history and fate
A vital part of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Tordenskjold performed ordinary duties until 1918, when she was turned into a cadet ship. She performed well in this role, carrying out eighteen training cruises until considered "unfit for war" in the mid-1930s. After the German invasion of Norway, she was seized by the Germans and rebuilt as a floating flak battery with 10.5 cm AA guns and renamed Nymphe. After the war Tordenskjold was used briefly as a floating barracks before she was sold for scrapping in 1948.
It was intended to augment the Norwegian coastal defence ship fleet with the two ships of the Bjørgvin-class, ordered in 1912, but after these were confiscated by the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War I the Tordenskjold class and the slightly newer, two ship strong, Eidsvold-class were forced to soldier on long after they were obsolete.
Today
Today the name KNM Tordenskjold is used on the Norwegian Naval Training Establishment (NORNAVTRAINEST) at Haakonsvern, Bergen.
- Anchor of HNoMS Tordenskjold (2007).JPG
The anchor of Tordenskjold (2007)
- KNM Tordenskjold.png
Plans of panserskipet Tordenskjold.
- Tordenskjold plan.gif
Note heavy guns in turrets fore and aft, and secondary armament in central battery.
Footnotes
- ↑ Abelsen, Frank (1986) (in Norwegian and English). Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945. Oslo: Sem & Stenersen AS. p. 290. ISBN 82-7046-050-8.
See also
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