Hval (ship, 1896)
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 The Sæl, built on the model of the Hval in Norway |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Torpedo boat |
| Shipyard | |
| Launch | 1896 |
| delivery | 1896 |
| Removed from ship register | 1931 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
83 t, maximum 102 t |
| length |
39.9 m over everything |
| width |
4.8 m |
| Draft |
2.15 m |
| crew |
23 men |
| drive |
2 steam boilers , |
| speed |
21 kn |
| Armament |
2 × 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons, |
| Coal supply |
17 t |
The Hval was a 1st class torpedo boat (Norw .: Torpedobåt Kl. I ) that served in the Norwegian Navy from 1897 to 1931 .
Construction and technical data
The Hval was the type ship of her class, to which the Dolphin and the Shark belonged. It was the first of a total of ten 1st class torpedo boats built for the Norwegian Navy before the country's independence from Sweden and also served as a model for the almost identical boats of the type built in 1898 at Carljohansværn Værft in Horten ( Norway ) Storm and the four Laks boats, also built there in 1900 and 1901 . However, the boats built in Norway were equipped with a considerably weaker machine system, which made only 650 hp and 17.5 knots .
The Hval ran in 1896 at Schichau in Elbing from the stack and was delivered in 1897 and put into service. The boat was 39.9 m long and 4.80 m wide. It had a draft of 1.10 m forward and 2.15 m aft and displaced 83 tonnes (standard) and 102 t (maximum). The machine system consisted of two water tube boilers and a triple expansion steam engine , whose 1100 HP enabled a top speed of 17.5 knots via one screw . Up to 17 tons of coal could be bunkered . The armament consisted of two 3.7-cm 5-barrel Hotchkiss revolver cannons and two 45-cm torpedo tubes set up individually. The crew numbered 23 men.
fate
During the political tensions with Sweden in the course of the Norwegian resolution process from the previous personal union with Sweden after the referendum of August 13, 1905, Norway, like Sweden, mobilized its armed forces on September 13. When war loomed in autumn, the Hval and the other new torpedo boats took part in extensive naval maneuvers and six of them were then stationed in the Oslofjord under the command of the destroyer Valkyrjen to deal with a feared Swedish attack from sea on Oslo and the military and industrial installations in Eastern Norway in cooperation with the four coastal armored ships , the other four 1st class torpedo boats remained in front of Bergen .
During the First World War , the Hval , like the other ships of the Norwegian Navy, served to ensure Norwegian neutrality and as an escort for merchant ships in Norwegian coastal waters. After the end of the war, until 1927, the boat was mainly used to pester smugglers who brought alcohol into the country during the Norwegian prohibition .
The Hval was retired in 1931 and was dismantled in Kristiansand at the time of the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940 . There she was captured by the Navy ; it was initially supposed to be used as a harbor protection boat, but was no longer put into service because of its poor condition. At the end of the war, the boat was taken over by the Norwegian Navy and broken up in 1947.
Sister boats
- The Delfin , also built near Schichau in 1896, was retired in 1927. It was also dismantled in Kristiansand on April 9, 1940, where it was prey of the Navy . The boat was given the name Kürassier (II) and the tactical designation NK04 as a harbor protection boat for the Kristiansund harbor protection flotilla, came back into Norwegian possession at the end of the war and was demolished in 1947.
- The Hai , which was also built near Schichau in 1896, was retired in 1920 and soon afterwards scrapped.
Web links
literature
- Jon Rustung Hegland & Johan Henrik Lilleheim: Norske torpedobåter gjennom 125 år. Sjømilitære Samfund ved Norsk Tidsskrift for Sjøvesen, Hundvåg, 1998, ISBN 82-994738-1-0 (norw.)
Footnotes
- ^ Jacob Børresen: Sjømilitære krigsforberedelser i ytre Oslofjord summer 1905. Vestfold University College and Borre Historical Society. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (norw.) (accessed February 25, 2012)
- ↑ The name Kürassier (I) was initially given to the small Norwegian torpedo boat Kvik (45 tons), which was also captured in Kristiansand, and which was then used as the NK03 by the Navy.
