Recognition Guide Warships of the Second World War

Royal Norwegian Navy — Destroyer class

Sleipner-class destroyer

Sleipner class

The class in numbers

  • 6 Completed
  • 1 Lost
  • 5 Scrapped

Design and service

Type
Destroyer
Navies
Royal Norwegian Navy 3
Kriegsmarine 2
Succeeded by
Ålesund-class destroyer (planned)
Builders
  • The Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Karljohansvern, Horten
  • Fredrikstad Mekaniske Verksted (Tor)

Class specifications

Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.

As built
Displacement, standard
735 long tons (747 t)
Length
74.3 m (243.8 ft)
Speed
32 knots (59.3 km/h, 36.8 mph)
Complement
75
Main gun
100 mm (3.9 in)
Armament
  • 3 × 10 cm guns
  • 1 × 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun
  • 2 × 12.7 mm Colt anti-aircraft machine guns
  • 2 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
  • 4 × depth charge throwers

Roster

Holding 5 of the 6 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.

Vessel Pennant Commissioned Fate
HNoMS Gyller (1938) 1938 1938 Scrapped 1959
HNoMS Odin (1939) 1939 1939 Scrapped 1959
HNoMS Sleipner (1936) 1936 1936 Scrapped 1956
HNoMS Tor (1939) 1939 1940 Scrapped
HNoMS Æger (1936) 1936 1936 Sunk 1940

Sources