HNoMS Troll
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 Plan of Draug-class destroyer  Torpedojageren Troll abandoned at Florø, May 1940. |
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | 7 July 1910 |
| Commissioned: | 13 March 1912 |
| Fate: | Captured 18 May 1940, returned 1945, scrapped 1949 |
| 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 invasion in 1940.
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[edit] Norwegian Campaign
On 9 April Troll was stationed at Måløy, and the vessel operated in the Sognefjord after the Germans invasion.
As the forces in the Sognefjord naval district started surrendering 1 May Troll was ordered to sail to the UK, but due to a lack of both crew and coal the ship was unable to do so. Hence, she struck her flag in Florø on 4 May 1940. The abandoned ship was seized in Florø by the Germans on 18 May.
[edit] German service
After capture Troll, retaining its original name, was rebuilt by the Germans as a distillation vessel and used as such until she was returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1945.
[edit] Post-war
Although Troll survived the war years and was returned to her proper owners, she was by then too worn down to see further service and was sold for scrapping in 1949.
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] Name
She was named after the Troll, a mythical anthropomorph race from Scandinavia.
[edit] See also
[edit] Source
- Abelsen, Frank: Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945, Sem & Stenersen AS, Oslo 1986 ISBN 82-7046-050-9
[edit] References
- Naval History via Flix: KNM Draug, retrieved 29 January 2006
- Ships of the Norwegian navy, retrieved 29 January 2006
- 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 |
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