HNoMS Tordenskjold

HNoMS Tordenskjold was a Norwegian coastal defence ship, built at Elswick and nearly identical to her sister ship Harald Haarfagre. The pair, with the slightly newer Eidsvold class, were built in the rearmament that led up to the events of 1905, and she was named after Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, the Norwegian naval hero who served Denmark-Norway. She was a pre-dreadnought battleship in miniature, with two 8.2-inch guns in barbettes, six 4.7-inch and six 3-inch guns and six smaller quick-firing guns, a speed of over 17 knots, a 7-inch belt and nearly 8 inches of armour on the barbettes. She stayed an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until 1918, when she became a cadet ship that made eighteen training cruises, and she was judged unfit for war in the mid-1930s. After the German invasion she was seized and rebuilt as the floating flak battery Nymphe, was damaged by RAF aircraft at Svolvaer in May 1945 and ran aground, was used briefly as a floating barracks and was sold for scrapping in 1948.