270 fully crewed, reduced to 228 in 1940, just 183 aboard when sunk[1]
Armament
2 × 21 cm (8.26 inch) guns
6 × 15 cm (5.90 inch) guns
6 × 7.6 cm (3 inch) guns
Torpedo tubes
AA Armament:
2 × 76 mm AA guns
2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
2 × 12.7 mm Colt anti-aircraft machine guns
4 × 7.92 mm Colt anti-aircraft machine guns
Aircraft carried
none
Notes
[2]
HNoMS Eidsvold was a coastal defence ship and the lead ship of her class, serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by Armstrong Whitworth at Newcastle on Tyne in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on 9 April 1940 during the German invasion of Norway (Operation Weserübung).
^The German attack in the Ofotfjord. P/S Eidsvold is sunk. Archived 4 April 2005 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian), retrieved 8 Dec 2005
^HNoMS Eidsvold Krigsseilerregisteret (in English)
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