1.-class torpedo boat

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The 1.-class torpedo boat was a designation in the Scandinavian countries for a type of fast steam ships on more than 80 tons .

Scandinavia Region in Northern Europe

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties. The term Scandinavia in local usage covers the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. The majority national languages of these three, belong to the Scandinavian dialect continuum, and are mutually intelligible North Germanic languages. In English usage, Scandinavia also sometimes refers to the Scandinavian Peninsula, or to the broader region including Finland and Iceland, which is always known locally as the Nordic countries.

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Royal Danish Navy

The Danish torpedo boat Soloven Danish Torpedo Boat Soloven.jpg
The Danish torpedo boat Søløven

Royal Norwegian Navy

Brand moored in port with three sisters, 1900. Brand is the boat on the left. Torpedo Boat Brand.jpg
Brand moored in port with three sisters, 1900. Brand is the boat on the left.

The Royal Norwegian Navy had ten torpedo boats built from 1892. 6 of which were still active at the German invasion of Norway in 1940. [1]

Torpedo boat small and fast naval vessel armed with torpedoes

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self-propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created to counter battleships and other slow and heavily armed ships by using speed, agility, and the power of their torpedo weapons. A number of inexpensive torpedo boats attacking en masse could overwhelm a larger ship's ability to fight them off using its large but cumbersome guns. An inexpensive fleet of torpedo boats could pose a threat to much larger and more expensive fleets of capital ships, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them.

HNoMS <i>Brand</i> (1898) ship

HNoMS Brand was a 1.-class torpedo boat constructed in 1898. She served the Royal Norwegian Navy for more than four decades, including neutrality protection duties during the First World War. Having once again been employed on neutrality protection duty at the outbreak of the Second World War, Brand was captured by the Germans during their invasion of Norway in April 1940.

HNoMS <i>Sæl</i>

HNoMS Sæl was the penultimate vessel of the ten 1. class torpedo boats of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built at the Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard in Horten in 1901, with yard number 85. She was to see close to 40 years service with the Royal Norwegian Navy, taking part in the preparations for war in connection with the dissolution the union with Sweden in 1905, enforcing Norwegian neutrality during the First World War and opposing the German invasion of Norway in 1940. She was lost in battle with Kriegsmarine vessels at Ånuglo in the Hardangerfjord on 18 April 1940.

HNoMS <i>Storm</i> (1898)

Operations: Norwegian Campaign HNoMS Storm was a 1. class torpedo boat constructed in 1898. Storm served the Royal Norwegian Navy for almost 42 years, including neutrality protection duties during the First World War. She was lost in the 1940 Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War. During the Norwegian Campaign, she was the only Norwegian warship that launched a torpedo against the invading Germans.

Royal Swedish Navy

The Swedish torpedo boat Regulus in 1915 Regulus 1915.jpg
The Swedish torpedo boat Regulus in 1915

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2.-class torpedo boat type of fast steam ship

The 2.-class torpedo boat was a designation in the Scandinavian countries for a type of fast steam torpedo boats between 40 tons and 80 tons, in service from the 1880s to after World War I.

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  1. ↑ "Norge i krigen 1939-45. Kronologisk oversikt" [Norway in the war from 1939 to 1945. Chronology] (in Norwegian). Norgeslexi. Archived from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2012-03-22.
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