| HNoMS Sleipner (1877) | |
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 Sleipner after the rebuild in 1900 | |
| Career |   |
| Name: | Sleipner |
| Namesake: | Sleipnir – the eight-legged steed of Odin |
| Builder: | Navy Yard, Karljohansvern |
| Yard number: | 56 |
| Laid down: | 1 January 1877 |
| Launched: | 7 August 1877 |
| Christened: | 20 May 1878 |
| Decommissioned: | 1935 |
| Out of service: | 1 January 1919 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1935 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | .1 class gunboat |
| Displacement: | 720 long tons (732 t) |
| Length: | 53.26 m (174 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: | 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 650 hp (485 kW) Reciprocating steam engines and sails |
| Speed: |
12.7 knots (14.6 mph; 23.5 km/h) under power 13.4 knots (15.4 mph; 24.8 km/h) under power with sails |
| Complement: | 90 |
| Armament: |
• 1 × 26 cm (10 in)/22 breech-loading gun • 1 × 15 cm (5.9 in)/25 breech-loading gun • 1 × underwater torpedo tube |
The HNoMS Sleipner was a 1. class gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull. The vessel was built at the Naval Yard at Horten, and had the yard number 56.
Fitout[]
Sleipner's main weapon was a 26 cm (10-inch) cannon, of the same make and model other navies mounted[1] on battleships. Sleipner also carried an underwater torpedo tube in her bow for firing Whitehead torpedoes, and she was the first vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy equipped with this weapon.
Rebuild[]
In 1900 Sleipner was rebuilt, and her masts and rigging was removed. After her rebuild she was used as a cadet ship (training vessel) until 1915, when she started a new life as a floating barracks. Between 1921 and 1932 Sleipner was used as a floating depot for the fledgling Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, before she was finally decommissioned and scrapped in 1935.
Notable crew[]
- Elias Aslaksen, served as an officer cadet on board Sleipner in 1908.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ GR 10in 26cm 22cal Krupp BL, retrieved 2 March 2006
- Naval history via Flix: KNM Sleiner, retrieved 2 March 2006
- Sjøforsvaret dag for dag: 20 mai, retrieved 2 March 2006 (Norwegian)
- Byggenummer ved Horten verft, retrieved 2 March 2006 (Norwegian)
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