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Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Transferred to the Royan Norwegian Navy Museum and preserved as a museum ship. Delfin (1966–1984) Given to Friends of the Shetland bus as a preservation project, but the project failed and the ship was given to a private person. Rapp class Six vessels built in Norway from 1952 to 1956. Rapp
The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of the state of Norway.As of 2008, the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, 32,000 when fully mobilized) and 69 vessels, including 4 frigates, 6 submarines, 6 corvettes, 3 minesweepers, 3 minehunters, 3 support vessels and 2 training vessels.
Funds from Nortraship were used to buy new ships, aircraft and equipment. 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 ...
HNoMS Odin was a Sleipner-class destroyer that entered service with the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1939. She and the other Sleipner-class vessels were built as part of a Norwegian rearmament scheme in the last years leading up to the Second World War.
On 12 April, the M.F.11 reported the position of two German merchant vessels, [11] which helped RNoN warships including HNoMS Sleipner seize the German ships that day. Contact with German forces was seldom but on one reconnaissance mission over Trøndelag, the M.F.11 came under fire from German aircraft, but escaped with minimal damage.
US Army Aircraft. New York: Ships & Aircraft Ltd. Francillon, René J. (March 1987). Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War (2nd (American) ed.). Annapolis: Naval ...
Aircraft Carrier (Heavy aircraft-carrying Cruiser) 1995 Cavour-class Italian Navy: 27,190 tons 1 Aircraft Carrier 2008 Chakri Naruebet-class Royal Thai Navy: 11,486 tons 1 Light Aircraft Carrier 1997 Charles de Gaulle-class French Navy: 40,500 tons 1 Aircraft Carrier 2001 Gerald R. Ford-class United States Navy: 100,000 tons 1 (+2) Aircraft Carrier
Ship Aircraft Displacement Propulsion Service Laid down Commissioned Fate HMS Hermes (95) 20 13,000 long tons (13,209 t) 6 Yarrow small-tube boilers, 2 shafts, Parsons geared turbines: max. speed 25 kn