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6 unusual facts about Royal Norwegian Navy


Charles Heron Mullan

He served on HMS Rodney and HMS Lewes before becoming a Naval Liaison Officer with the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Horten Station

Part of the reason for the towns importance was that it hosted Karljohansvern, the main base of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Lars Vatten

After serving at the Royal Norwegian Navy he became a Family Doctor at the University of Trondheim (1983–86).

Nordseewerke

The shipyard has also constructed ships for use by other navies, like the Kobben (Type 207) and Ula (Klasse 210) class submarines for the Royal Norwegian Navy, which were built to operate in shallow, coastal waters.

Postage stamps and postal history of Norway

While the new collaborationist government in Norway issued its own stamps, the government-in-exile, based in London, issued stamps for the use of the Royal Norwegian Navy and the merchant marine.

Tor Levin Hofgaard

Before starting his psychological degree he had an officer’s education, and worked in the Royal Norwegian Navy.


Commando Order

On 30 July 1943, the captured seven-man crew of the Royal Norwegian Navy motor torpedo boat MTB 345 were executed by the Germans in Bergen, Norway on the basis of the Commando Order.

Draug-class destroyer

The Draug class was the first multi-vessel class of destroyers built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, the first destroyer to be built for the RNoN being the Valkyrjen, commissioned 17 May 1896.

Norwegian A-class submarine

The A class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Polar 8 Project

The Arctic Patrol Ship Project is based on a Royal Norwegian Navy patrol boat design used in the Barents Sea with a polar class of PC 5; thus they will be significantly smaller and less capable than what was envisioned in the Polar 8 Project, which would have extended the lacking capabilities of the Canadian Coast Guard's operations in the Arctic Ocean.


see also

Brummer

HNoMS Olav Tryggvason, a Royal Norwegian Navy ship captured by the Germans in World War II and renamed Brummer

Fredrik Kayser

The two had been transported to Masfjorden from the UK on the Royal Norwegian Navy submarine chaser HNoMS Vigra with orders to establish Bjørn West.

Northrop N-3PB

On 30 December 1939, Norway sent a purchasing commission to the United States, consisting of a Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service contingent headed by Cmdr. Kristian Østby, and a Norwegian Army Air Service contingent led by Birger F. Motzfeldt.

Tryggvason

HNoMS Olav Tryggvason, built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the naval shipyard at Horten in the early 1930s