HNoMS Stegg (1921)

HNoMS Trygg - HNoMS Stegg's sister ship
History
Norway
Name	Stegg
Namesake	the male grouse
Builder	Horten Naval shipyard
Yard number	111[1]
Launched	16 June 1921
Out of service	20 April 1940
Stricken	24 June 1949
Fate	Destroyed in battle with Kriegsmarine units at Herøysund, Uskedal, 20 April 1940 Formally stricken and sold for scrapping 24 June 1949.
Service record
Commanders:	Lieutenant H. M. Hansen (1940)
Operations:	Norwegian Campaign
Victories:	2 ships (11,862 tons) taken as prizes, 1 warship damaged
General characteristics
Class and type	Trygg class
Displacement	256 tons [2]
Length	53 m (173.88 ft)
Beam	5.5 m (18.04 ft)
Draft	1.58 m (5.18 ft)
Propulsion	3,600 hp steam engine
Speed	25 knots (46.30 km/h)
Complement	33 men
Armament	2 × 76 mm guns 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun 4 × 45 cm torpedo tubes

The last of the Trygg class of Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boats was HNoMS Stegg. Her sister ships were Trygg and Snøgg. The Trygg class vessels were the only additions to the Norwegian fleet of torpedo boats between the First and the Second World Wars. At the outbreak of the Second World War the Trygg class was mobilised together with eight 2. class and six 1. class torpedo boats.

Stegg was constructed at Horten naval shipyard and had yard number 111.^[1] She was named after the Stegg, the Norwegian term for the male grouse.