She is a museum vessel owned by the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum but maintained and sailed by a dedicated friendship association.
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It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image.
Narvik, the last active ship of the class, has been transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten.