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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

GLOMMEN minelayers (1917-1918)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Glommen     Akers, Oslo 1916 1917 1917 captured by Germany 14.4.1940 (Glommen)
Laugen     Akers, Oslo 1916 10/1917 1918 captured by Germany 14.4.1940 (Laugen), returned 5.1945, BU 1948

 

Displacement standard, t

335

Displacement full, t

380

Length, m

42.0

Breadth, m

8.50

Draught, m

2.10

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 boiler

Power, h. p.

170

Max speed, kts

9.8-9.9

Fuel, t

coal 21

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors, 120 mines

Complement

35

Project history: Coastal minelayers vessels specially created for service in Oslo-fiord.

Modernizations:  None.

Naval service: Glommen and Laugen were captured by German troops 14.4.1940 at Tunsberg, and commissioned by Germans under the same names. Glommen was sunk by British aircraft 20.10.1940 in Trondheim-fjord. Laugen was returned to Norway after war. 

Glommen

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