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The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
World War II corvettes of Norway (1 P) D. World War II destroyers of Norway (21 P) G. ... Category: World War II naval ships of Norway. 4 languages ...
World War II merchant ships of Norway (1 C, 24 P) N. World War II naval ships of Norway (8 C) This page was last edited on 15 February 2024, at 16:03 (UTC). Text ...
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.
List of shipwrecks: 1 July 1945 Ship State Description CD-72 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The Type D escort ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Yellow Sea west of the Changshan Islands) by USS Haddo ( United States
14-knot convoys of tankers with some fast cargo ships: GUF: Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay: 29 November 1942 16 April 1945 22 faster ships GUS: Mediterranean to Chesapeake Bay: 21 December 1942 27 May 1945 92 slower ships HG: Gibraltar to Liverpool: 26 September 1939 19 September 1942 89 replaced by MKS convoys after Operation Torch: HX
Two ships, MV Dicto and SS Lionel returned to Gothenburg. [12] [13] The total number of crew on the ten involved ships was 471. Of these 19 perished during the escape operation, 124 reached the British islands. [1] and the 85 persons from Dicto and Lionel returned to Sweden. More than 200 from the ships were captured by the Germans.
When Norway was invaded by Germany on 9 April 1940, the merchant fleet had been at war for seven months. Norway was neutral, but lost 58 ships and around 400 sailors. During these months much of the framework that Nortraship was to operate within was created; most importantly the Norwegian-British tonnage agreement.