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Eidsvold

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Norge			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1899	31.1.1900	2.1901	sunk 9.4.1940
Eidsvold			Armstrong, Elswick, UK	1899	14.6.1900	1901	sunk 9.4.1940

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3645
Displacement full, t	4166
Length, m	91.7 pp 94.6 oa
Breadth, m	15.4
Draught, m	5.38 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 6 Yarrow boilers
Power, h. p.	4500
Max speed, kts	16.5
Fuel, t	coal 550
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(10)
Armour, mm	belt: 152-127, bulkheads: 152, NS; turrets: 203-152, deck: 51-37, CT: 152
Armament	2 x 1 - 209/44 Armstrong C, 6 x 1 - 149/46 Armstrong FF, 8 x 1 - 76/40 Armstrong N, 4 x 1 - 47/46 Hotchkiss, 2 - 450 TT (beam)
Complement	266

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Project history

Largest combat ships of the Norwegian Navy in both World Wars. They were designed in 1898, and were the further development of Harald Haarfagre class, differed by using of Krupp armour instead of Harvey, water-tube boilers instead of fire-tube and two funnels instead of one.

From the moment of completing up to the Second World War beginning both ships were not exposed to any significant modernisations: all was limited by installation of several AA guns. Nevertheless, by 1940 these ships were in fair technical condition and easily could keep 15kts speed.

Protection

Belt protected about 60% of ship length, its thickness decreased to 127mm at upper edge, belt was covered by 51mm main deck, turtleback-form 37mm main deck protected ship ends.

Modernizations

1927, both: + 2 x 1 - 47/46 QF Mk I

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

Naval service

Eidsvold 9.4.1940 was torpedoed at entrance to Narvik harbour by German destroyer Wilhelm Heidkamp, blown up and sunk. Norge 9.4.1940 was torpedoed in harbour of Narvik by German destroyer Bernd von Arnim, capsized and sunk.