HNoMS Svenner

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The S-class destroyer Svenner at Scapa Flow
Career
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Launched:	June 1, 1943
Commissioned:	1944
Fate:	Sunk June 1, 1944
General characteristics
Displacement:	2,400 tons
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HNoMS Svenner was an S-class 2,400 ton destroyer in the service of the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War II. She was launched on June 1, 1943 as the Royal Navy ship HMS Shark (G03), but was rechristened HNoMS Svenner when she was commissioned in the Norwegian Navy in 1944. Svenner was sunk off Normandy at dawn on June 6, 1944.

The reasons of her sinking have not yet been made clear. Some say that the Svenner struck a mine, other that she was hit by a torpedo from German MTBs or a submarine.

However later investigations indicate that the Svenner may have been hit by an German anti-shipping missile (possibly a Fritz X), since little indicate that German MTBs came at firing range and no accounts of German naval activity in the invasion area itself have been recorded. There have also been reports of German bombers releasing long, torpedo-like bombs, but from a very long distance, no way near firing-range. The most likely, though, is that it was hit by a torpedo, but accounts point eather direction.

[edit] See also

• List of World War II ships

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