HNoMS Stegg (1921)

HNoMS Trygg - HNoMS Stegg's sister ship
History
Norway
Name:	Stegg
Namesake:	the male grouse
Builder:	Horten Naval shipyard
Yard number:	111
Launched:	16 June 1921
Out of service:	20 April 1940
Struck:	24 June 1949
Fate:	Destroyed in battle with Kriegsmarine units at Herøysund, Uskedal, 20 April 1940 Formally stricken and sold for scrapping 24 June 1949.
Service record
Commanders:	Lieutenant H. M. Hansen (1940)
Operations:	Norwegian Campaign
Victories:	2 ships (11,862 tons) taken as prizes, 1 warship damaged
General characteristics
Class and type:	Trygg class
Displacement:	256 tons
Length:	53 m (173.88 ft)
Beam:	5.5 m (18.04 ft)
Draft:	1.58 m (5.18 ft)
Propulsion:	3,600 hp steam engine
Speed:	25 knots (46.30 km/h)
Complement:	33 men
Armament:	2 × 76 mm guns 1 × 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun 4 × 45 cm torpedo tubes

The last of the Trygg class of Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boats was HNoMS Stegg. Her sister ships were Trygg and Snøgg. The Trygg class vessels were the only additions to the Norwegian fleet of torpedo boats between the First and the Second World Wars. At the outbreak of the Second World War the Trygg class was mobilised together with eight 2. class and six 1. class torpedo boats.

Stegg was constructed at Horten naval shipyard and had yard number 111. She was named after the Stegg, the Norwegian term for the male grouse.

The Stegg had a brief and intense period of service in the Norwegian Campaign after the German invasion of Norway. When the invasion began on 9 April 1940 she was anchored at Skudeneshavn and commanded by Lieutenant H. M. Hansen. She entered the Hardangerfjord on 10 April 1940 and proceeded to capture two German merchant ships; first the 5,295-ton Cläre Hugo Stinnes 1 on 12 April 1940 and then the 6,567-ton iron ore laden Afrika five days later. Together with the 1. class torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl, Stegg escorted Afrika to the port of Odda the same day she was captured. The German crews were held as POWs by Norwegian land forces.