HNoMS Frithjof (1895-1928)

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The gunboat Frithjof in Kiel, 1900
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	15 November 1895
Commissioned:	1895
Fate:	Decommissioned 1928
General characteristics
Displacement:	1280 or 1360 tons (sources disagree)
Dimensions:	68.17 m x 9.98 m x 4 m
Armament:	2 x 12 cm (4.7 inch) guns 4 x 76 mm (3 inch) QF guns 4 x 1pdr (37 mm / 1.47 inch) automatic gun[1] 1 x 46 cm (18 inch) torpedo tube
Propulsion:	2800 hp reciprocating steam engine, 2 shafts, 15 knots
Crew:	154

The HNoMS Frithjof was a 1. class gunboat (built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull.

Frithjof served with the Norwegian Navy as a gunboat and cadet training ship until striken in 1928.

The vessel was built at the Naval Yard at Horten, and had the yard number 76.

[edit] Notes and references

1. ^ 1pdr Single

• Naval history via Flix: KNM Frithjof,
• Viking (First Class Gunboat, 1891-1920), retrieved 17 March 2006
• Byggenummer ved Horten verft, retrieved 17 March 2006

Norwegian gunships

1. class:

Ellida, Sleipner, Viking and Frithjof

2. class:

Vale class: Vale, Brage, Nor, Uller and Vidar

Gor class: Gor and Tyr

Æger

Gunships of the Royal Norwegian Navy