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Plans of panserskipet Tordenskjold
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Class overview | |
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Name | Tordenskjold class |
Operators | Royal Norwegian Navy |
Preceded by | None |
Succeeded by | Eidsvold class |
Built | 1897–1898 |
In commission | 1898–1948 |
Completed | 2 |
Scrapped | 2 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Coastal defence ship |
Displacement | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
Length | |
Beam | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
Draught | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
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Propulsion | 2 × triple-expansion steam engines |
Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
Complement | 245 |
Armament |
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Armour |
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The Tordenskjold class of coastal defence ships was ordered by Norway as part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905 - when Norway broke out of the union with Sweden - the two ships in the class (Tordenskjold and Harald Haarfagre) remained the backbone (alongside the slightly newer Eidsvold class) of the Royal Norwegian Navy until they were considered 'unfit for war' in the mid-1930s.