HNoMS Æger

Several ships of the Royal Norwegian Navy have been named Æger, after Ægir – the Jötunn king of the sea in Norse mythology:

HNoMS Æger (1894), a 2. class gunship in service from 1894 to 1932.
HNoMS Æger (1936), a Sleipner class destroyer commissioned in 1938.
HNoMS Æger (1963), a Sleipner class corvette in service from 1967 to 1992.

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