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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

HVAL 1st class torpedo boats (1896)

Hval 1905

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Hval     Schichau, Elbing, Germany   1896 1896 stricken 1931
Delfin     Schichau, Elbing, Germany   1896 1896 stricken 1927
Hai     Schichau, Elbing, Germany   1896 1896 stricken 1920

 

  

Displacement normal, t

83

Displacement full, t

102

Length, m

39.9

Breadth, m

4.80

Draught, m

1.10 fore 2.15 aft

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

1100

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

coal 17

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Complement

23

Project history: The design of Schichau was created on the basis of German torpedo boat S67. By 1940 survived ships made about 17.5kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Hval and Delfin at the moment of German intrusion laid disarmed in Kristiansand. Both were captured by German troops and commissioned by Germans as Hval and Körassier, both were returned in May 1945 and broken up in 1947.

 

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