HNoMS Troll (1910)
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The destroyer HNoMS Troll, known locally as Torpedojager Troll (litt.: torpedo hunter), was the second destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as the second ship of the Draug-class destroyers. She was built at the naval shipyard in Horten, with yard number 104.[1] She was kept in service long after she was obsolete, and took part in the defence of Norway after the German invasion in 1940.
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Plan of Draug-class destroyer Troll abandoned at Florø, May 1940 | |
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Norway | |
Name | Troll |
Namesake | The Norse mythological creature Troll |
Builder | The Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Horten |
Yard number | 104[1] |
Launched | 7 July 1910[1] |
Commissioned | 13 March 1912 |
Out of service | 4 May 1940 |
Captured | by the Germans 18 May 1940 |
Service record | |
Operations: | Norwegian Campaign |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Troll |
Acquired | 18 May 1940 |
Fate | Handed back to Norway after VE Day |
Service record | |
Operations: | Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany |
History | |
Norway | |
Name | Troll |
Acquired | May 1945 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Draug-class |
Displacement | 578 tons standard [2] |
Length | 69.2 m (227.03 ft) |
Beam | 7.3 m (23.95 ft) |
Draft | 2.9 m (9.51 ft) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion steam engine with 7500 hp |
Speed | 27 knots (50.00 km/h) |
Complement | 76 men |
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