The class also comprised the Baja (ex-Barsch, ex-Neretva, ex-Barsch, ex-m) which was sold as a mercantile barge in the 1940s, the Compo on 10/1927. When Norway was invaded on Apr. MAY 1940. Norwegian Campaign - continued . From a force of 15 ships in June 1940, the Royal Norwegian Navy had expanded to 58 warships by the end of the Second World War in Europe. The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.. 8 March 1941 On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended. A Norwegian Navy vessel is to visit Montrose to commemorate the death of World War Two sea dog and navy mascot Bamse. 25 September 1940 . Olav Tryggvason, a 1924-ton minelayer, was built at Horton, Norway. List of military aircraft of Norway consists of the aircraft of Royal Norwegian Air Force, established in 1944 with the amalgamation of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the Norwegian Army Air Service, both of which were established in 1912.. Below is a list of aircraft used by the Norwegian Air Forces throughout their history. THE NORWEGIAN ARMY IN 1940 Norway had nearly disarmed during the 1920s and 1930s, and although it made efforts to correct major deficiencies in equipment, by the time of the German attack most items were still on order rather than in the force structure. However the defeat of France and surrender completely shatterred these plans in june 1940. 9-1940 she was stationed at Lerøyosen. ... when it was drafted into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1940. World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations: Last Updated 17.12.98 Draug, old destroyer, strafed by German aircraft, one man wounded . The 125 former years of peace, had brought the country to a trance like state when dealing with military matters. Home Fleet, Cruiser Squadrons: CS1 - Mar-Aug 1940, CS2 - Mar-Dec 1940 - CS18 - Mar-Dec 1940 - CS20 (or AA Ships) - May-Jun 1940 Reports Norwegian Campaign - Allied Landing Plans, Operation R.4, Apr 1940 The Royal Navy was deprived of any support in the Mediterranean, having to face the might of the Italian Navy, the Luftwaffe and even a fiercely neutral, later hostile French navy. The page is in English. Sent to Nordheimsund on Apr. At the onset of the Second World War, Thorodd was drafted into the Royal Norwegian Navy as a coastal patrol vessel, based in Hammerfest, and Bamse was enrolled as an official crew member on 9 February 1940. The Norwegian army and navy was certainly not prepared for war. The Norwegian Armed Forces (Norwegian: Forsvaret, "The Defence") is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Norway.It consists of four branches, the Norwegian Army, the Royal Norwegian Navy, which includes the Coast Guard, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and the Home Guard, as well as several joint departments. * Most soldiers had a 84 days long basic training, but some even less. Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) Sleipner class Destroyers. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 901 M STREET SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Online Library of Selected Images:-- NORWEGIAN NAVY SHIPS --Olav Tryggvason (Minelayer, 1934-1940). However, Sleipner managed to get to sea and participated in the capture of a German freighter and armed trawler. "The World's largest shipping company" When Germany invaded Norway on April 9-1940, the Norwegian ships that were in allied waters at the time were requisitioned by Royal Norwegian Government, which early on in the war managed to escape to the U.K. (the King was evacuated on June 7). The number of men was steadily increased as Norwegians living abroad, civilian sailors and men escaping from Norway joined the RNoN. On February 16, 1940 an RAF observation plane sighted the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian territorial waters. In the same month, the ship was put into German services as mine layer and patrol boat Kamerun (NO 01).Assigned to the harbor guard flotilla in Oslo, the ship stayed in Norwegian waters and returned to Norway in 1945. The third ship was the Györ, retroceded to Austria on 4/1920 as Compo, and purchased again 10/1927, and … Believing she was carrying Allied prisoners, Churchill sent a flotilla of destroyers commanded by Captain Philip Vian to intercept her in the Jøssingfjord. The Altmark incident convinced Adolf Hitler that the Allies would not respect Norwegian neutrality. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, however, was by that time convinced that some aggressive action ought to be taken; and Paul Reynaud, who succeeded Édouard Daladier as France’s premier on March 21, was of the same opinion. Pulled into Hardangerfjord and participated in the fighting there. 10 and 13 April 1940 Location ... Two naval battles were fought at Narvik in 1940. "Opposing the invasion were the partially mobilized Norwegian military, and an allied expeditionary force composed of British, French, and Free Polish formations. The website that I've linked to below has her history up until today. 31 May 1939, Denmark and Germany signed a treaty of non-aggression, all but symbolic and in April 1940, Germany pretexted the intended laying of mines in Norwegian and Danish waters to launch Operation Weserubung. The Norwegian mine hunter Rauma was damaged during the German Invasion of Norway and taken over in April 1940 in Horten. Hitler, who had decided on 14 December 1939 on the invasion of Norway, ordered intensified planning on 19 February 1940 for attacks on Norway and Denmark, which eventually took place on 9 April 1940 under the code name Operation Weserübung. WW II: On hire to the Royal Norwegian Navy for neutrality duty from Sept.-1939. German Navy forces included a pocket battleship, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, torpedo boats and minesweepers for the landings at the six Norwegian ports, with battlecruisers “Scharnhorst” and “Gneisenau” covering the two most northerly landings. 2nd/3rd - In three days and nights the last 10,000 British and French troops were evacuated from Namsos and around Andalsnes following the failure to attack towards Trondheim and hold central Norway. 9th - Germany invaded Denmark and Norway: German Navy forces included a pocket battleship, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, torpedo boats and minesweepers for the landings at the six Norwegian ports, with battlecruisers “Scharnhorst” and “Gneisenau” covering the two most northerly landings. World War II - World War II - The invasion of Norway: British plans for landings on the Norwegian coast in the third week of March 1940 were temporarily postponed. Royal Navy personnel lost on any of the Norwegian ships are in the Royal Navy casualty lists . 23 October 1940 . The army and navy airforce were used for the first time in close operations co-ordinated between ground forces and aircraft during the battles of Narvik, and performed quite good concerning the situation. The RAF’s Battle of Britain heroics are credited with saving the nation. Anyway, the Norwegian airforces continued operating their aircraft mostly for recce, - bombing, cargo and courier missions. The following list formed the order of battle for this campaign The ranks of the Navy and Air Force were swollen by a steady trickle of refugees making their way out of occupied Norway, and their equipment brought up to standard by British and American aircraft and ships. 1941 . MTB.6, strafed by German aircraft in English Channel, one man wounded. After the Nazi invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940 the Thorodd was part of the naval opposition to the Germans and had as one of its uses POW transport. NORWEGIAN NAVY 1940-45 (class) BBc Norge TB Kjell TB Skarv TB Jo TB Hval TB Snogg TB Garm . ... Nazi Germany's surprise attack on Denmark and Norway in April 1940 caught Norway's navy at anchor. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended. Norvegian Navy 1940-45 2 DD Sleipner CM Olav Tryggvason CM Froya CMc Vale CMc Brage CMc Gor CMc Glommen . 15-1940, where a German force was in position. But, argues Nick Hewitt, it was the Royal Navy’s savaging of the German fleet in the battle of Norway in the spring of 1940 that scuttled Hitler’s grand invasion plans 1940 . Under German control and requisitioned by German navy 1940, used as submarine mothership. English: The Royal Navy in the Norwegian Campaign, 1940 Shellbursts and fire on the shores of Bjerkvik at the head of the Herjangs Fjord, opposite Narvik, which was shelled by the Royal Navy, 5 June 1940. Reported at Skojomen in Aug. 1943, at Horten in May-1944 and at Flensburg in June-1945, returned to Norway. SERVING WITH ROYAL NAVY, LOST 1941-1945 . The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940, Geirr H Haarr.This is a monumental, hugely detailed and very impressive account of the early stages of the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the build-up to war, the initial German attack and the naval campaigns that followed, and with much more attention paid to the Norwegian point of view than is often the case. The German operation for the invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 was code-named Weserübung, or "Weser Exercise. Sistership Aegir was not so lucky, being bombed and beached, a total loss. Military service. Norwegian Merchant Ships in WW II. 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