HNoMS Garm

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Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	25 May 1913
Commissioned:
Fate:	Sunk 26 April 1940
General characteristics
Displacement:	578 tons
Dimensions:	69.20 m x 7.30 m x 2.9 m
Armament:	6 x 7.6 cm (3 inch) guns 3 x trainable torpedo tubes
Propulsion:	8,000 hp, 26.5 knop
Crew:	76

The destroyer HNoMS Garm, known localy as Torpedojager Garm (litt.: torpedohunter), was the third destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and was a Draug class destroyer. Garm was built several years after her two sisterships, but to the same plans. She was keept in service long after she was obsolete, and took part in the defence of Norway after the German invation in 1940.

On 9 April Garm, alongside her sistership Troll was stationed at Måløy, and the vessel operated in the Sognefjord after the Germans had occupied Bergen. She was sunk by a direct hit from Luftwaffe bombers while anchored at her Sognefjord base of Bjordal on 26 April.

Garm was built at the naval shipyard in Horten, and her buildnumber was 107.

[edit] External links

• A detailed model of T/J Draug, from the Navy Museum (part of the Armed Forces Museum in Norway).
• Detail of a model of T/J Draug, ships boat.
• Detail of a model of T/J Draug, brigde and forward 7.6 cm QF gun.
• Detail of a model of T/J Draug, aft 7.6 cm QF gun.

[edit] References

• Naval History via Flix: KNM Draug, retrieved 29 January 2006
• Ships of the Norwegian navy, retrieved 29 January 2006
• Draug, from the Armed Forces Museum website, retrieved 29 January 2006 (in Norwegian)
• Byggenummer ved Horten verft, retrieved 8 February 2006

Norwegian destroyers

Draug class: Draug, Troll, Garm

Sleipner class: Sleipner, Gyller, Æger, Odin, Balder, Tor

S class: Svenner, Stord

Town class: Lincoln, St Albans, Mansfield, Bath, Newport All Town class vessels was loaned from the Royal Navy

C class: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger

Hunt class: Arendal, Haugesund, Tromsø

Destroyers of the Royal Norwegian Navy