Name: | NORGE |
Type: | Battleship |
Keel: | 14/04/1899 |
Launched: | 31/03/1900 |
Completed: | 07/02/1901 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd |
Yard: | Elswick |
Yard Number: | 698 |
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: | |
07/02/1901 | 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 | |
a German destroyer. 105 crew died |
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