HNoMS Norge
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For the Norwegian royal yacht, see HNoMY Norge.
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 and sunk by German destroyers in Narvik harbour on 9 April 1940.
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Norge transporting the coffin of writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1910 | |
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Name | Norge |
Namesake | Norway |
Builder | Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle on Tyne |
Launched | 31 March 1900[1] |
Commissioned | 7 February 1901 |
Fate | Sunk 9 April 1940 in Narvik Harbour, Norway |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship |
Displacement | 4,233 tons (standard) |
Length | 94.60 m (310 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 15.70 m (51 ft 6 in) |
Draft | 5.40 m (17 ft 9 in) |
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Speed | 17.2 knots (31.9 km/h; 19.8 mph) |
Complement | 270 fully crewed, reduced to 229 in 1940, just 191 aboard when sunk[2] |
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Notes | [3] |
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