Engineering:Norwegian A-class submarine
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 HNoMS A-4
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | Krupp Germania Kiel, Germany |
| Operators: |
 Royal Norwegian Navy |
| Preceded by: | Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. |
| Succeeded by: | B class |
| In service: | – 16 April 1940 |
| In commission: | 2 March 1914 |
| Planned: | 4 |
| Building: | 4 |
| Completed: | 4 |
| Lost: | 3 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Submarine |
| Displacement: | |
| Length: | 46.7 m (153 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | |
| Range: |
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| Test depth: | 50 m (164 ft) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: | 1 dingi |
| Complement: | 16 (? officers and ? ratings) |
| Armament: |
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The A-class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
The Norwegian government purchased four submarines that were almost completed in 1913 and received three of these before World War I. The fourth, A-5, was seized by German authorities at the outbreak of war and commissioned as Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist.. It was used for coastal protection and from 1916 as a training vessel in the Baltic Sea.[1]
Fates
All three A-class submarines were lost in the first week following the German invasion of Norway, one in combat and the other two through scuttling.
- Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (2 March 1914 – 9 April 1940) attacked and severely damaged by the two German R boat minesweepers R-22 and R-23 off the Vallø peninsula near Tønsberg in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940. Her crew was captured and she drifted ashore at Vallø, a total wreck.
- Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1914 – 16 April 1940) scuttled by own crew in Verkbukta at Tønsberg on 16 April 1940
- Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. (1914 – 16 April 1940) scuttled by own crew in Verkbukta at Tønsberg on 16 April 1940
Footnotes
- ↑ E.Gröner, Deutsche Kriegsschiffe, vol. III, p. 48
Literature
- Abelsen, Frank (1986) (in no, en). Norwegian naval ships 1939–1945. Oslo: Sem & Stenersen AS. ISBN 82-7046-050-8.
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