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Ships

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Vidar		MV Horten		31.1.1882	1882	captured by Germany 14.4.1940 (NK31)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	262
Displacement full, t	?
Length, m	28.9
Breadth, m	7.90
Draught, m	2.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	330
Max speed, kts	9.5
Fuel, t	coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts)	700(9)
Armament	1 x 1 - 267/17 Armstrong 21.7-ton MLR No.3, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss
Complement	38

Standard scale images

Project history

Coastal gunboat of so-called "Elswick" type.

Modernizations

1913, converted to minelayer: - 1 x 1 - 267/17, 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 149/45 Armstrong FF, 1 x 1 - 47/46 Hotchkiss, 50 mines; displacement rose to 255/270t

Naval service

Vidar was captured by German troops 14.4.1940 at Tonsberg, commissioned by Germans as NK31, returned to Norway after war in May, 1945 and immediately scrapped.