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VIDAR gunboat (1882)

nearly sister-ship Vale 1914

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Vidar   MV Horten   31.1.1882 1882 captured by Germany 14.4.1940 (NK31)

 

Displacement normal, t

262

Displacement full, t

?

Length, m

28.9

Breadth, m

7.90

Draught, m

2.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VC, 2 boilers

Power, h. p.

330

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, t

coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts) 700(9)

Armament

1 x 1 - 267/17 Armstrong 21.7-ton MLR No.3, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

Complement 38

 

Project history: Coastal gunboat of so-called "Elswick" type.

Modernizations: 1913, converted to minelayer: - 1 x 1 - 267/17, 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 149/45 Armstrong FF, 1 x 1 - 47/46 Hotchkiss, 50 mines; displacement rose to 255/270t

Naval service: Vidar was captured by German troops 14.4.1940 at Tonsberg, commissioned by Germans as NK31, returned to Norway after war in May, 1945 and immediately scrapped.

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