HNoMS Olav Tryggvason
Olav Tryggvason in her pre-war role as a training ship
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 Norway
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| Name: | Olav Tryggvason |
| Namesake: | Olaf I of Norway |
| Builder: | the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Horten |
| Yard number: | 119 |
| Launched: | 21 December 1932 |
| Commissioned: | 21 June 1934 |
| Captured: | By the Germans on 9 April 1940 |
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| Commanders: | Kommandørkaptein T. Briseid |
| Operations: | Opposing the German invasion of Norway |
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 Nazi Germany
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| Name: | Albatros II |
| Acquired: | 9 April 1940 |
| Commissioned: | 11 April 1940 |
| Renamed: | Brummer on 16 April 1940 |
| Fate: | Wrecked in Royal Air Force bombing raid on Kiel 3 April 1945 |
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| General characteristics as built | |
| Displacement: | 1,596 tons standard |
| Length: | 97.3 m (319.23 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.45 m (37.57 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.5 m (11.48 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Two De Laval turbines with 4,600 hp and two Sulzer Marsch eight cylinder diesel engines of 1,400 hp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.04 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,556.00 km) at 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Complement: | 175 men |
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| Notes: | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from |
| General characteristics after 1943 rebuild | |
| Displacement: | 1,860 tons |
| Length: | 97.3 m (319.23 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.45 m (37.57 ft) |
| Draft: | 3.5 m (11.48 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Two De Laval turbines with 4,600 hp and two Sulzer Marsch eight cylinder diesel engines of 1,400 hp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.04 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,000 nautical miles (5,556.00 km) at 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Complement: | 175 men |
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| Notes: | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from |
The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built by the naval shipyard at Horten in the early 1930s and had build number 119. She served in the Royal Norwegian Navy until captured by the Germans in 1940. The Germans renamed her first Albatros II, and a few days later Brummer. She was wrecked in a British bombing raid in northern Germany in April 1945.
The Olav Tryggvason was considered a well armed and balanced ship, with an engine plant consisting of both steam turbines and diesel engines. Olav Tryggvason was the first Norwegian warship equipped with a basic gun computer, allowing all four main guns to be fired at the same time at one target with some degree of accuracy.
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Olav Tryggvason served as a cadet training ship in the summer season, taking aboard 55 cadets and showing the flag around Western Europe on training cruises. One of the cadets serving on board in the 1930s was Crown Prince Olav of Norway.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Olav Tryggvason took part in neutrality protection duties. Her first armed action came on 3 November 1939, when the US merchant ship City of Flint entered Norwegian territorial waters. The City of Flint had been taken as a prize by the German pocket battleship Deutschland in the Atlantic and was on its way to Germany with the American crew as prisoners. According to public international law, the ship could have passed through Norwegian waters without interference, but when she stopped and anchored in the port of Haugesund, the Germans broke Norwegian neutrality regulations. The German prize crew had brought the City of Flint into Haugesund to escape the British naval forces which searched for them. When the British cruiser HMS Glasgow approached the City of Flint on 2 November the escorting Olav Tryggvason had confronted the British warship and made it leave Norwegian waters.Olav Tryggvason boarded the City of Flint with one officer and thirty armed sailors, who returned control of the ship to the American captain, Joseph H. Gainard, on 6 November. He unloaded his cargo in Bergen and set sail in ballast for the US. The German prize crew was interned at Kongsvinger Fortress. In response, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs received several strongly worded and threatening notes from its German counterpart.
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