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Glommen

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Laugen NN05   Akers, Oslo, Norway   1916 1917 // 3.1941 surrendered 5.1945, to Norway (Laugen)
Glommen NKi01   Akers, Oslo, Norway   1916 1917 // 3.1941 sunk 17.11.1944


Technical data


Displacement standard, t335
Displacement full, t380
Length, m

41.9 wl 43.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.45

Draught, m

1.89

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 water-tube boiler

Power, h. p.

170

Max speed, kts

9.5

Fuel, tcoal 21
Armament2 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I/II, 50 mines
Complement38


Graphics


<i>Glommen</i>
Glommen


Project history

Former Norwegian coastal minelayers, captured in Tunsberg 14.4.1940 and commissioned by Kriegsmarine as mine transports under own names (since March, 1941 as minelayers), subsequently converted to patrols.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Glommen 26.10.1944 was sunk by British torpedo bomber in Trondheim-fjord. Laugen after war was returned to Norway and BU in 1950.