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German torpedo boat Löwe (1938)

HNoMS Gyller May 1953.jpg
Gyller as a frigate in 1953.
History
Norway
Name: Gyller
Namesake: Gyller – one of the twelve horses of the Æsir
Builder: The Royal Norwegian Navy's Karljohansvern shipyard at Horten
Yard number: 125
Launched: 7 July 1938
Commissioned: 1938
Captured: by Germany on 9 April 1940
Service record
Operations: Opposing the German invasion of Norway
Nazi Germany
Name: Löwe
Acquired: 11 April 1940
Fate: Handed back to Norway after VE Day
Service record
Operations:

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

Operation Hannibal
Norway
Name: Gyller
Commissioned: May 1945
Decommissioned: 1959
General characteristics as built
Class and type: Sleipner-class destroyer
Displacement: 735 tons
Length: 74.30 m (243.77 ft)
Beam: 7.75 m (25.43 ft)
Draft: 4.15 m (13.62 ft)
Propulsion: Two De Laval geared turbines with two shafts and 12,500 hp (9,300 kW)
Speed: 32 knots (59.26 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482.00 km) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
Complement: 75 (10 officers and 65 sailors)
Armament:
General characteristics in German service
Class and type: Sleipner class
Displacement: 735 tons
Length: 74.30 m (243.77 ft)
Beam: 7.75 m (25.43 ft)
Draft: 4.15 m (13.62 ft)
Propulsion: Two De Laval geared turbines with two shafts and 12,500 hp
Speed: 32 knots (59.26 km/h)
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482.00 km) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
Complement: 75 (10 officers and 65 sailors)
Armament:
  • 1 × 10.5 cm main gun (since 1941)
  • 1 × 40 mm Bofors L/60
  • 2 × 2 cm AA guns (four since 1941)
  • 2 × double 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
  • 24 mines

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-class destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1938. Along with the other Sleipner-class vessels in commission at that time, she took part in protecting Norwegian neutrality during the Second World War. After initially serving in the far north during the Finno-Soviet Winter War, she was redeployed to Southern Norway, escorting ships through Norwegian territorial waters. When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, she was docked at Kristiansand. After taking part in the defence of the port city, she was captured intact by the invading Germans. Renamed Löwe, she sailed with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for the duration of the war. Her perhaps most notable event in German service was escorting the evacuation ship Wilhelm Gustloff when the latter was torpedoed and sunk by a Soviet submarine with heavy loss of life. Returned to Norway in 1945, she was converted to a frigate in 1948 and sold for scrapping in 1959.

Gyller was built at Karljohansvern naval shipyard and had yard number 125. She was launched on 7 July 1938 Gyller had four torpedo tubes, instead of the two which were standard in the rest of her class.

Gyller spent the early part of the Second World War in the far north of Norway, protecting Norway's neutrality during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union. During her deployment in North Norway she patrolled Norwegian territorial waters and repeatedly had to sink Soviet naval mines that had broken their moorings and drifted into Norwegian waters. During the Winter War all three of the Sleipner-class destroyers commissioned at the time (Æger, Gyller and Sleipner) were deployed to different ports in Finnmark, with Gyller based in Kirkenes.


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