Plans of the Tordenskjold-class coastal defense ships. Note heavy guns in forward and aft turret, and secondary armament in central battery.
Harald Haarfagre in drydock at Karljohansvern naval base.
History
Norway
Name
Harald Haarfagre
Namesake
Harald I of Norway
Ordered
1896
Laid down
1897
Launched
4 January 1897
Commissioned
21 March 1898
Captured
by the Germans in 1940
Nazi Germany
Name
Thetis
Acquired
1940
Fate
Handed back to Norway after VE Day
Norway
Name
Harald Haarfagre
Acquired
1945
Fate
Scrapped 1948
General characteristics as built
Class and type
Tordenskjold-class coastal defence ship
Displacement
3,858 long tons (3,920 t)
Length
92.66 m (304 ft 0 in)
Beam
14.78 m (48 ft 6 in)
Draught
5.38 m (17 ft 8 in)
Propulsion
Coal-fired boilers, reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW)
Speed
16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph)
Complement
245
Armament
2 × 21 cm (8.3 in)/45 guns
6 × 12 cm (4.7 in)/45 guns
6 × 7.6 cm (3 in)/40 guns
6 × 1-pounder Quick Fire guns
2 × 45 cm (18 in) submerged torpedo tubes
Armour
Belt : 7 in (178 mm)
Turrets : 8 in (203 mm)
General characteristics after German rebuild
Displacement
3,858 long tons (3,920 t)
Length
92.66 m (304 ft 0 in)
Beam
14.78 m (48 ft 6 in)
Draught
5.38 m (17 ft 8 in)
Propulsion
Coal-fired reciprocating steam engines, 4,500 hp (3,356 kW)
Speed
16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph)
Complement
245
Armament
6 × 10.5 cm AA guns
2 × 40 mm AA guns
14 × 20 mm AA guns[1]
Armour
Belt : 7 in (178 mm)
Turrets : 8 in (203 mm)
HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, known locally as Panserskipet Harald Haarfagre, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship Tordenskjold and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Harald Haarfagre remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid-1930s.
^Abelsen, Frank (1986). Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945 (in Norwegian and English). Oslo: Sem & Stenersen AS. p. 289. ISBN 82-7046-050-8.
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Plans of the Tordenskjold-class coastal defense ships. Note heavy guns in forward and aft turret, and secondary armament in central battery.
Norway
Nazi Germany