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Thetis

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Thetis (ex-Harald Haarfagre)		648	Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1896	4.1.1897	1898 // 1.2.1941	surrendered 5.1945, to Norway 1946, BU
Nymphe (ex-Tordenskjöld)		649	Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1896	18.3.1897	1898 // 1.2.1941	damaged 5.1945, never repaired

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3380
Displacement full, t	3858
Length, m	85.0 wl 92.7 oa
Breadth, m	14.8
Draught, m	5.02 normal 5.38 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal 400
Armour, mm	Harvey steel; belt: 203 - 76, bulkheads: 203, deck: 51 - 37
Armament	6 x 1 - 105/42 SK C/32, 2 x 1 - 40/56 FlaK 28, 2 x 4 - 20/65 C/38, 6 x 1 - 20/65 C/38
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Project history

Former Norwegian coast defence battleships, 9.4.1940 they were captured by German troops at Horten where they were on conservation. Both were converted to floating AA batteries at Horten. They were used for air defence of anchorages, for example, Thetis protected basing of battleship Tirpitz in Kaa Fjord.

Ship protection

37mm deck was connected with lower edge of main belt by 51mm slopes. 203mm main belt was closed by 203mm bulkheads abreast barbettes, ship ends were protected by 76mm belt.

Modernizations

1944, both: + FuMO 212 or FuMO 213 radar

Naval service

Nimphe in May, 1945 was damaged by British aircraft at Svolvaer, run aground and late that year broken up. Thetis was returned to Norway and BU in 1947.