HNoMS Tordenskjold

Captured

Royal Norwegian Navy, then Kriegsmarine (Germany)

Type	Coast-defence battleship
Class	Tordenskjold
War	Second World War
Main guns	2 × 8″ guns

Service

to 1940	Tordenskjold	Norway
from 1940	Nymphe Captured at Horten	Germany

Old coast-defence ship, built in Britain in 1897. Captured at Horten on 9 April 1940 and rebuilt by the Germans as the floating anti-aircraft battery Nymphe. Scrapped after the war.

Norwegian coastal defence ship Tordenskjold (1897–1940), German antiaircraft ship Nymphe (1940–1945), scrapped in 1948 Photo: Arthur Renard, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

2 × 21 cm (8 in)/45 guns
6 × 12 cm (5 in)/45 guns
6 × 7.6 cm (3 in)/40 guns
6 × 1-pounder QF guns
2 × 45 cm (18 in) submerged torpedo tubes

Armour

Belt : 7 in (178 mm)
Turrets : 8 in (203 mm)

Laid down	1897
Launched	18 March 1897
Commissioned	21 March 1898
Displacement	3,858 long tons (3,920 t)
Length	92.66 m (304 ft 0 in)
Speed	16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph)
Complement	245

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

Career

Launched

18 March 1897

Action at Horten

Captured

9 April 1940

Laid up in the base

Renamed Nymphe

Germany

April 1940 · Captured at Horten

Fate

Captured

Scrapped 1948