Plans of the Tordenskjold-class coastal defense ships. Note heavy guns in forward and aft turret, and secondary armament in central battery. Harald Haarfagre in drydock at Karljohansvern naval base.
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History | |
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Norway | |
Name | Harald Haarfagre |
Namesake | Harald I of Norway |
Ordered | 1896 |
Laid down | 1897 |
Launched | 4 January 1897 |
Commissioned | 21 March 1898 |
Captured | by the Germans in 1940 |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Thetis |
Acquired | 1940 |
Fate | Handed back to Norway after VE Day |
Norway | |
Name | Harald Haarfagre |
Acquired | 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped 1948 |
General characteristics as built | |
Class and type | Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship |
Displacement | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
Length | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
Propulsion | Coal-fired boilers, reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
Complement | 245 |
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General characteristics after German rebuild | |
Displacement | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
Length | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
Beam | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
Propulsion | Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
Complement | 245 |
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HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, known locally as Panserskipet Harald Haarfagre, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship Tordenskjold and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Harald Haarfagre remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid-1930s.