HNoMS Troll
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 Plan of Draug class destroyer  Troll abandoned at Florø, May 1940 |
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| Name: | Troll |
| Builder: | The Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Horten |
| Launched: | 7 July 1910 |
| Commissioned: | 13 March 1912 |
| Decommissioned: | 4 May 1940 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Draug class |
| Displacement: | 578 tons standard [1] |
| Length: | 69.2 metres (227.03 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.3 metres (23.95 ft) |
| Draft: | 2.9 metres (9.51 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Triple expansion steam engine with 7500 hp |
| Speed: | 27 knots (50.00 km/h) |
| Complement: | 76 men |
| Armament: | 6 × 7.6 cm (3 inch) guns 1 × 12,7 mm Colt anti-aircraft machine gun 3 × trainable 45 cm torpedo tubes |
The destroyer HNoMS Troll, known locally as Torpedojager Troll (litt.: torpedohunter), was the second destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as the second ship of the Draug class destroyers. She was built at the naval shipyard in Horten, with build number 104.[2] She was kept 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] Name
She was named after the Troll, a mythical anthropomorphic race from Scandinavia.
[edit] Norwegian campaign
On 9 April Troll was stationed at Måløy, as part of the 2nd Naval District's 1st destroyer division [3]. Commanded by Captain J. Dahl the vessel operated in the Sognefjord after the German 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 steam supply ship, having her whole superstructure removed. She was used as such at the Laksevåg shipyard near Bergen from 1941 until she was returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1945.[4]
[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.
[edit] Other RNoN ship called Troll
From 1959 to 1965 The Royal Norwegian Navy had a River class frigate called HNoMS Troll. The frigate was rebuilt as a submarine support ship and renamed HNoMS Horten in 1965, continuing to serve until 1973.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Abelsen 1986: 28
- ^ Horten municipal archive for local history: Build numbers at Horten Yard (Norwegian)
- ^ Administrative Order of Battle Royal Norwegian Navy 2nd Naval District
- ^ german-navy.de on the Troll
[edit] Literature
- Abelsen, Frank: Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945, Sem & Stenersen AS, Oslo 1986 ISBN 82-7046-050-8 (English)&(Norwegian)
[edit] External links
- german-navy.de article on Troll
- Naval History via Flix: KNM Draug, retrieved 29 January 2006 (English)
- Ships of the Norwegian navy, retrieved 29 January 2006 (English)
- Byggenummer ved Horten verft, retrieved 8 February 2006 (Norwegian)
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