NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Names	Builders	Completed (launched)	Losses	Transfers	Discarding
Ørn Ravn	MV Horten: Ørn, Ravn	1905: Ørn (8.12.1903), Ravn (18.12.1903)	Ørn (to Germany 9.4.1940, Schlange), Ravn (18.4.1940)	None	None

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	68
Displacement full, t	73
Length, m	34.5
Breadth, m	4.40
Draught, m	1.60
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	850
Max speed, kts	23
Fuel, t	coal 13
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 37/45 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 1 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement	16

Project history

Enlarged version of Varg class torpedo boats with more powerful machinery and 23kts speed. One TT was placed on turning mount on an upper deck, second was immovable in a bow. To the Second World War beginning they have ultimately become outdated.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Ravn were scuttled by crew 18.4.1940 in the Lyngör-fjord at Arendal. Ørn 9.4.1940 was captured by German troops in Horten and commissioned by Germans as Schlange, after war in May, 1945 was returned to Norway, immediately stricken and broken up next year.