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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.
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 ...
HMS Venturer was a Second World War British submarine of the V class that sank two German U-boats and five merchant ships during the war. Following the war, the boat was sold to Norway and was renamed HNoMS Utstein. She was scrapped in 1964. She is the only submarine in history to have sunk another while both were submerged.
[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.
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