HNoMS Nor (1878-1949)

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[[Image:|300px]] The gunship HNoMS Nor.
Career
Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	23 October 1878
Commissioned:	1878
Fate:	Rebuilt as minelayer, decommissioned 1949
General characteristics
Displacement:	260 tons
Dimensions:	28 m long
Armament:	As built: 1 x 21 cm (10.5 inch) RML gun 1 x 1pdr (cm / inch) QF gun 1 x 1pdr (cm / inch) revolving gun After rebuild: 1 x 12 cm (4.72 inch) gun 1 x 47 mm (1.85 inch) 2 x 37 mm (1.46 inch) guns 236 tons of mines
Propulsion:	220 hp ( Kw), 8.5 knop ( km/h, mph)
Crew:	41 (31 after rebuild)

The HNoMS Nor was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1878. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Vale, Brage, Uller and Vidar.

Nor was, in addition to the heavy, muzzleloading main gun, armed with a small 'Quick Fire' gun and an early automatic gun, similar to the Gatling gun.

Later Nor and her sisterships was rebuilt as minelayers, and she served in this role when the Germans invaded in 1940. During the Norwegian campaign she served mainly in Sognefjorden. She was captured by German forces on 14 April 1940, and returned to Norway after the war.

The vessel was built at the Naval Yard at Horten, and had the yard number 57.

The Nor was named after the legendary Norse ancestral hero Nór who according to the Orkneyinga saga and the Hversu Noregr byggðist (both found in the medival Icelandic Flateyjarbók) founded Norway together with his brother Gor.

[edit] See also

• List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons

[edit] References

• Naval history via Flix: KNM Vale, retrieved 27 Feb 2006
• Byggenummer ved Horten verft, retrieved 27 Feb 2006
• Ships of the Norwegian navy, retrieved 27 Feb 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