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 - Preceded by
- Draug-class destroyer
- 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
- Facts harvested from Sleipner-class destroyer on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.