Royal Norwegian Navy — Coastal defence ship class
Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship
Tordenskjold class
The class in numbers
- 2 Completed
- 2 Scrapped
Design and service
- Type
- Coastal defence ship
- Navy
- Royal Norwegian Navy
- Built
- 1897–1898
- In commission
- 1898–1948
- Preceded by
- None
- Succeeded by
- Eidsvold-class coastal defence ship
- Builders
- Armstrong, Mitchell & Co.
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 3,858 long tons (3,920 t)
- Length
- 92.66 m (304 ft) OA
- Speed
- 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h, 19.4 mph)
- Complement
- 245
- Main gun
- 210 mm (8.3 in)
- Armament
- 2 × 21 cm guns
- 6 × 12 cm guns
- 6 × 12-pdr (76 mm (3 in)) guns
- 6 × 1-pdr QF guns
- 2 × 45 cm torpedo tubes
Roster
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| German ship Tethis | 1898 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| HNoMS Harald Haarfagre | 1898 | Scrapped 1948 | |
| HNoMS Tordenskjold | 1898 | Scrapped 1948 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.