Tordenskjold in 1900
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History | |
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Norway | |
Name | Tordenskjold |
Namesake | Peter Tordenskjold |
Ordered | 1896 |
Laid down | 1897 |
Launched | 18 March 1897 |
Commissioned | 21 March 1898 |
Captured | by the Germans in 1940 |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Nymphe |
Acquired | 1940 |
Fate | Handed back to Norway after VE Day |
Norway | |
Name | Tordenskjold |
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 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 Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship, Harald Haarfagre, and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as a part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Tordenskjold remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid-1930s.