HNoMS Tordenskjold
Tordenskjold in 1900
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| Name: | Tordenskjold |
| Namesake: | Peter Tordenskjold |
| Ordered: | 1896 |
| Laid down: | 1897 |
| Launched: | 18 March 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 21 March 1898 |
| Captured: | by the Germans in 1940 |
 Nazi Germany
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| Name: | Nymphe |
| Acquired: | 1940 |
| Fate: | Handed back to Norway after VE Day |
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| Name: | Tordenskjold |
| Acquired: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1948 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class and type: | Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship |
| Displacement: | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
| Length: | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion: | Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 245 |
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| General characteristics after German rebuild | |
| Displacement: | 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) |
| Length: | 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) |
| Beam: | 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught: | 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) |
| Propulsion: | Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW) |
| Speed: | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
| Complement: | 245 |
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HNoMS Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship, Harald Haarfagre, and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as a part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Tordenskjold remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid-1930s.
Built at Elswick and nearly identical to her sister ship Harald Haarfagre, Tordenskjold was named after Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, an eminent Norwegian naval hero in the service of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. Built as a typical pre-dreadnought battleship on a small scale, she carried guns of a wide range of calibers: two 8.2-inch guns in barbettes, six 4.7-inch, six 3-inch, and six smaller quick-firing guns. The ship could manage a speed of over seventeen knots. Protected by belt armor of seven inches thickness, the ship also featured gun barbettes with nearly eight inches of steel armor and an armored deck.
A vital part of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Tordenskjold performed ordinary duties until 1918, when she was turned into a cadet ship. She performed well in this role, carrying out eighteen training cruises until considered "unfit for war" in the mid-1930s. After the German invasion of Norway, she was seized by the Germans and rebuilt as a floating flak battery with 10.5 cm AA guns and renamed Nymphe. In May, 1945 she was damaged by British aircraft at Svolvaer and beached. She was refloated later in the year. After the war Tordenskjold was used briefly as a floating barracks before she was sold for scrapping in 1948.
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