Royal Norwegian Navy — Coastal defence ship class
Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Lost
Design and service
- Type
- Coastal defence ship
- Navy
- Royal Norwegian Navy
- Preceded by
- Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship
- Succeeded by
- Bjørgvin-class coastal defence ship
- Builders
- Armstrong Whitworth, UK
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 4,233 long tons (4,301 t)
- Length
- 94.6 m (310.4 ft)
- Speed
- 17.2 knots (31.9 km/h, 19.8 mph)
- Complement
- 270
- Main gun
- 210 mm (8.3 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 21 cm (8.26 in) guns
- 6 × 15 cm (5.90 in) guns
- 8 × 7.6 cm (3 in) guns
- 4 × BR 4.7 cm/50 cal. (3-pounder)
- 2 × 45 cm (18 in) submerged torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HNoMS Eidsvold | 1901 | Sunk 1940 | |
| HNoMS Norge | 1901 | Sunk 1940 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.