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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


Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums

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

Above photo is copyright of the Norsk Maritimt Museum, Anders Beer Wilse Collection