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Handed back to Norway after VE Day: Norway; Name: Tordenskjold: Acquired: 1945: Fate: Scrapped 1948: General characteristics as built; Class and type: Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship: Displacement: 3,858 long tons (3,920 t) Length: 92.66 m (304 ft 0 in) Beam: 14.78 m (48 ft 6 in) Draught: 5.38 m (17 ft 8 in) Propulsion
Balder (1946–1959) In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948. [1] Tor (1946–1959) In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948. S class Two vessels on loan from the Royal Navy Svenner (1944) ex-HMS Shark Torpedoed and sunk on D-Day, 6 June 1944) Stord (1943–1959) ex-HMS Success
6 July – Norway declares war on Japan. 25 July – Gerhardsen's First Cabinet was appointed. 17 August – Reidar Haaland was executed. 4 September – The Third Reich's last active troops surrender after seal hunters discover them on Bear Island. [3] 8 October – The 1945 Parliamentary election takes place.
The list of shipwrecks in July 1945 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during July 1945. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
[1] Norway announced that it had declared war on Japan on December 7, 1941. [9] Frank Forde became 15th Prime Minister of Australia one day after John Curtin's death in office. Michael I of Romania was awarded the Order of Victory, the Soviet Union's highest and rarest military decoration.
Ten ships and 1,000 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy participated in the Normandy Invasion in 1944. During the war the navy operated 118 ships, at the end of the war it had 58 ships and 7,500 men in service. They lost 27 ships, 18 fishing boats (of the Shetland bus) and 933 men in World War II. [8] The navy had its own air force from 1912 to 1944.
Naval ships of Norway captured by Germany during World War II (28 P) M. World War II mine warfare vessels of Norway (2 C) P. World War II patrol vessels of Norway (1 ...
On 1 July the Baltic Fleet M class submarine M-81 struck one of the mines laid by Brummer [25] and sank off the island of Vormsi in Estonia. [ 26 ] Of the total of six German-controlled minelayers operating in the Northern Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland in 1941-1942 Brummer was the only vessel purpose-built for minelaying.