HNoMS Honningsvåg
Honningsvåg off Iceland
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| Name: | Malangen |
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| Yard number: | 645 |
| Launched: | February 1940 |
| Captured: | by Norwegian militia on 13 April 1940 |
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| Name: | Honningsvåg |
| Namesake: | Port of Honningsvåg |
| Acquired: | 13 April 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 23 April 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 August 1946 |
| Fate: | Sold to civilian interests in 1947, scrapped in 1973 |
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| Commanders: | Lieutenant A. E. T. Plyhn |
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| Victories: | 1 ship (192 tons) sunk |
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| Tonnage: | 487 gross register tons |
| Length: | 177.2 ft (54.01 m) |
| Beam: | 27.5 ft (8.38 m) |
| Draft: | 16.3 ft (4.97 m) |
| Installed power: | 1,000 ihp (750 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × shaft; 1 × Triple-expansion steam engine |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range: | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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| Notes: | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from |
HNoMS Honningsvåg was a naval trawler that served throughout the Second World War as a patrol boat in the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was launched at the North Sea harbour of Wesermünde in Hanover, Germany in February 1940 as the fishing trawler Malangen and was captured by Norwegian militiamen at the North Norwegian port of Honningsvåg during her maiden fishing journey to the Barents Sea. Having taken part in the defence of Norway in 1940 she spent the rest of the war years patrolling the ocean off Iceland. She was decommissioned in 1946, sold to a civilian fishing company in 1947 and scrapped in 1973.
Malangen was launched in February 1940 with the designation PG 550 for the trawler company Norddeutsche Hochseefischerei AG. At this early point in the war the Kriegsmarine had not yet begun requisitioning all new trawlers and Malangen was used as an ordinary fishing vessel.
On 27 March 1940 the Malangen departed Wesermünde on her maiden voyage to the fishing grounds of the Barents Sea. While she operated off Norway the German invasion of that country began. As she attempted to make her way back to Germany Malangen entered the port of Honningsvåg in the Norwegian Finnmark county on 13 April.
When the German trawler entered the small port she was swiftly boarded by a locally raised guard unit led by løytnant (Lieutenant, Junior Grade) C. A. Carlsen and seized before the crew could set off the two scuttling charges they had placed in the engine room. This was the second German trawler the Honningsvåg riflemen had captured; two days previously they had seized control of the München of "Nordsee" Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG. The German sailors were later transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp at Vardøhus Fortress by the 1,382 ton Norwegian steamer Nova, arriving on 24 April. The sailors were transferred on the Nova to Skorpa prisoner of war camp in Troms on 13 May 1940 and released from captivity on 12 June, after the Norwegian capitulation.
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