HNoMS Æger

Sunk

Type	Destroyer
Class	Sleipner
War	Second World War
Main guns	3 × 3.9″ guns

Small Sleipner-class destroyer at Stavanger. On the morning of 9 April 1940 she stopped and sank the German supply ship Roda, carrying the heavy anti-aircraft guns for Sola airfield, and was then sunk by German bombers; eight of her crew were killed.

The Norwegian Sleipner class destroyer HNoMS Sleipner (published in Jane's Fighting Ships as 1937 official Sleipner photograph. Some publications identify it as HNoMS Æger, but the name Sleipner is on a board under bow turret) Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

3 × 10 cm guns
1 × 40 mm Bofors L/60
anti-aircraft gun
2 × 12.7 mm Colt
anti-aircraft machine guns
2 × 53.3 cm trainable torpedo tubes
4 × depth charge throwers

Builder	The Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Karljohansvern, Horten
Launched	25 August 1936
Commissioned	1936
Displacement	735 tons
Length	74.30 m (243.77 ft)
Speed	32 knots (59.26 km/h)
Complement	75 men

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

25 August 1936

Sinking of Æger

Sunk

9 April 1940

8 killed