HNoMS Frithjof (1895)

Frithjof in Kiel, 1900
History
Name: Frithjof
Builder: Navy Yard, Karljohansvern
Yard number: 76
Launched: 15 November 1895
Commissioned: 1895
Decommissioned: 1928
General characteristics
Class & type: 1. class gunboat
Displacement: 1,280 long tons (1,301 t) or 1,360 long tons (1,382 t) (sources disagree)
Length: 68.17 m (223 ft 8 in)
Beam: 9.98 m (32 ft 9 in)
Draught: 4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion: Reciprocating steam engine, 2,800 hp (2,088 kW), 2 shafts
Speed: 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement: 154
Armament:
  • 2 × 12 cm (5 in) guns
  • 4 × 76 mm (3 in) QF guns
  • 4 × 1-pounder 37 mm (1 in) automatic gun[1]
  • 1 × 46 cm (18 in) torpedo tube

HNoMS Frithjof was a 1. class gunboat (built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like the other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull. The vessel was built at the Naval Yard at Horten, and had yard number 76.

Frithjof served with the Norwegian Navy as a gunboat and cadet training ship until stricken in 1928.

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