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HARALD HAARFAGRE coastal battleships (1898)


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Tordenskjold 1900

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Harald Haarfagre     Armstrong, Elswick, UK 1896 4.1.1897 3.1898 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (Thetis)
Tordenskjold     Armstrong, Elswick, UK 1896 18.3.1897 3.1898 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (Nymphe)


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

3380
Displacement full, t

3858
Length, m

92.7 oa
Breadth, m

14.8
Draught, m

5.38 max
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 3 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.

4000
Max speed, kts

16.9
Fuel, t

coal 500
Endurance, nm(kts)5000(10)
Armour, mm

Harvey steel; belt: 178-100, NS; turrets: 203-127, deck: 51-37, CT: 152
Armament

2 x 1 - 209/44 Armstrong B, 6 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 6 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 6 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 2 - 450 TT (beam)
Complement

245


Standard scale images


<i>Harald Haarfagre</i> 1940
Harald Haarfagre 1940


Graphics


<i>Tordenskjold</i> 1900
Tordenskjold 1900


Project history

Classical coast defence battleships, ordered by Norway in the middle of 1890th. They were built by Armstrong from 1895. According to an customer wish, as the design sample newest (for that moment) Swedish Oden class ships have elected, and owing to it Norwegian ships had close enough to them characteristics.

As well as Norge class ships, Harald Haarfagre class pair during service did not pass any modernisations (except for installation of several AA guns). To the Second World War beginning they ultimately become outdated and have been laid up into reserve.

Protection

Belt protected about 60% of ship length, its thickness decreased to 102mm at upper edge, belt was covered by 51mm main deck. Ship ends were protected by 31mm belt and 37mm deck.

Modernizations

1923, both: + 2 x 1 - 47/46 QF Mk I

~1939, both: + 2 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors M36, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon M36, 2 x 1 - 12.7/90

Naval service

Both ships 9.4.1940 were captured by German troops at Horten. They were converted by Germans to floating AA batteries and commissioned in 1941 under names Thetis (ex-Harald Haarfagre) and Nymphe (ex-Tordenskjold). Thetis was returned to Norway in May 1945 and sold for scrap, and Nymphe was bombed and beached at Svolvaer in May 1945.