HNoMS Troll

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Plan of Draug-class destroyer
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	7 July 1910
Commissioned:
Fate:	Captured 18 May 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 Troll, known localy as Torpedojager Troll (litt.: torpedohunter), was the second destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and was a Draug class destroyer. 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 Troll was stationed at Måløy, and the vessel operated in the Sognefjord after the Germans had occupied Bergen. She was captured on 18 May, after the surrender of the Norwegian forces in southern Norway.

Troll was built at the naval shipyard in Horten, and her buildnumber was 104.

From 1959 to 1965 Norway had a River class frigate named Troll which was rebuilt and renamed in 1965.

[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