Name: | EIDSVOLD |
Type: | Battleship |
Keel: | 09/05/1899 |
Launched: | 14/06/1900 |
Completed: | 05/03/1901 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Elswick |
Yard Number: | 699 |
Dimensions: | 3848disp, 290.0 x 50.6 x 16.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl (23, 35 & 54 x 30ins), 4500ihp |
Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 17.2knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 2 x 1 x 8.2ins, 6 x 1 x 5.9ins, 8 x 1 x 12pdr guns; |
2 x 1 x 18.0ins torpedoes | |
History: | |
05/03/1901 | Norwegian Royal Navy |
09/04/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the Eidsvold Class of coastal defence ships |
09/04/1940: Sunk in Narvik harbour by torpedoes from | |
German destroyer HEIDKAMP. 178 crew died |
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Above photo is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection
Above photo is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection
Above photo is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection
Above photo is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection