HNoMS Nor was a Vale-class Rendel 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 were Vale, Brage, Uller and Vidar.
 Vale-class gunboat
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| Name | Nor |
| Namesake | Nór – mythological co-founder of Norway |
| Builder | Karljohansverns Verft Naval Yard in Horten |
| Launched | 23 October 1878 |
| Commissioned | 1878 |
| Decommissioned | 1945 |
| Out of service | 14 April 1940 |
| Fate | Decommissioned and sold to civilian interests in 1945 |
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| Class and type | Vale-class Rendel gunboat |
| Displacement | 260 tons |
| Length | 28 m (91.86 ft) |
| Propulsion | 220 hp steam engine |
| Speed | 8.5 knots (15.74 km/h) |
| Complement | 41 (31 after rebuild) |
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Nor was, in addition to the heavy, muzzle-loading main gun, armed with a small 'Quick Fire' gun and a 37mm Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon (broadly similar to the Gatling gun).
Later Nor and her sister ships was rebuilt as mine layers, 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 yard number 57. After being decommissioned in 1945 the ship was sold to a civilian company in 1949, converted to a salvage ship/tug and renamed Flatholm.[1]
Footnotes edit
- ^ Abelsen, Frank: Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945, Sem & Stenersen AS, Oslo 1986, ISBN 82-7046-050-8 (in English and Norwegian)
External links edit
- Naval history via Flix: KNM Vale, retrieved 27 Feb 2006
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