List of Royal Norwegian Navy ships
This article is a list of Royal Norwegian Navy fleet units and vessels, both past and present.
Ships from the years 1509 to 1814 might be listed under Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.
Fleet units and vessels (present)
Frigates
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Support vessels
Royal yacht
- * K/B Stjernen royal boat.
Minesweepers
- * Oksøy M340
- * Karmøy M341
- * Måløy M342
- * Hinnøy M343
- * Alta M350
- * Otra M351
- * Rauma M352
- * Orkla M353
- * Glomma M354
- , discovered wreck of in 1999 and wreck of British Royal Navy destroyer in 2008.
- Mine Clearance Command
Submarine branch
- 1st Submarine Squadron :
MTB branch
- Missile Torpedo Boat Command
- * Missile Patrol Boat :
- ** Skjold
- ** Storm
- ** Skudd
- ** Steil
- ** Glimt
- ** Gnist
- * Support vessel:
- **
Naval Ranger branch
- Norwegian Naval Special Operations Commando
- Coastal Ranger Command
- Norwegian Mine Diver Command
- Tactical Boat Squadron
- * Combat Boat 90
- **Trondenes
- **Skrolsvik
- **Kråkenes
- **Stangnes
- **Kjøkøy
- **Mørvika
- **Kopås
- **Tangen
- **Oddane
- **Malmøya
- **Hysnes
- **Brettingen
- **Løkhaug
- **Søviknes
- **Hellen
- **Osternes
- **Fjell
- **Lerøy
- **Torås
- **Møvik
Logistics branch
Coast Guard units and vessels
- Coast Guard Squadron North
- * Svalbard
- *
- ** Andenes
- ** Nordkapp
- ** Senja
- * Harstad
- * Chieftain
- * Thorsteinson
- * Sjøveien
- * Nysleppen
- * Barentshav
- * Torsteinson
- * Åhav
- * Kongsøy
- * Stålbas
- Coast Guard Squadron South
- * Ålesund
- * Eigun
- * Lafjord
- * Titran
- * Garsøy
- * Agder
- * Tromsø
- Future vessels
- * Six vessels of the ordered
- * Three hybrid diesel-LNG vessels, two to be named and Sortland and one unnamed ordered
Naval schools
- Royal Norwegian Naval Basic Training Establishment, HNoMS Harald Haarfagre, Stavanger
- Royal Norwegian Navy Officer Candidate School, Horten
- Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Laksevåg, Bergen
- Royal Norwegian Naval Training Establishment, HNoMS Tordenskjold, Haakonsvern, Bergen
Navy vessels (past)
Amphibious landing vessels
- Kvalsund class
- * Kvalsund
- * Raftsund
- Reinøysund class
- * Reinøysund Still in use or in reserve?
- * Rotsund Still in use or in reserve?
- * Borgsund
- * Sørøysund
- * Maursund
- Tjeldsund class
- * Tjeldsund
Armed auxiliaries
- Alpha patrol boat
- Alversund patrol boat, sunk by own crew.
- Andenes patrol boat
- Aud I patrol boat
- Bergholm used as MCM vessel and Shetland Bus.
- Beta patrol boat
- Bjerk patrol boat
- Blink patrol boat
- Blåsel patrol boat
- Bodø Sunk by a mine in 1943
- Commonwealth patrol boat
- Honningsvåg, naval trawler, originally the German trawler Malangen, captured by Norwegian forces at Honningsvåg 13 April 1940
- Pol III, armed whaler; engaged German Kampfgruppe 5 on 8 April 1940, its captain, Leif Welding-Olsen, became the first Norwegian uniformed casualty of WWII
- , patrol boat
Brigs
- Launched 1805. Captured from the Royal Navy off Lindesnes 19 June 1808.
Coastal defence ships
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- * – Sunk at Narvik on 9 April 1940.
- * – Sunk at Narvik on 9 April 1940.
- * – Seized by the Royal Navy and renamed, blew up in September 1918.
- * – Seized by the Royal Navy and renamed.
Corvettes
- – Six vessels received from the Royal Navy
- * – ex-
- * – ex-
- * – ex-
- * – ex-, sunk by on 18 November 1942.
- * - ex-
- * – ex-
- * Polarfront II – ex-, used as a weather ship.
- – One vessel received from the Royal Navy
- * – ex-, was sunk by a mine near Båtsfjord, Norway on 12 December 1944.
- – Two vessels built.
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Destroyers
- * In Norwegian service until scrapped in 1944.
- * In German hands from 1940 to 1945, scrapped in 1949.
- * Sunk by Luftwaffe bombers on 26 April 1940 during the Norwegian campaign.
- Six vessels made in Norway from 1936 to 1939.
- * In Norwegian service during the war. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948.
- * In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948.
- * Sunk by German bombers on 9 April 1940, at the beginning of Operation Weserübung after first sinking the German supply ship Roda and shooting down two Luftwaffe bombers.
- * In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948.
- * In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948.
- * In German hands from 1940 to 1945. Rebuilt to frigate in 1948.
- S class Two vessels on loan from the Royal Navy
- *
- * ex-
- Five vessels on loan from the Royal Navy.
- * Lincoln
- * St Albans
- * Mansfield
- * Bath
- * Newport
- Four vessels bought from the UK in 1946 and 1947.
- * ex-
- * ex-
- * ex-
- * ex-
- Type II
- * Arendal ex-
- * ex-
- * ex-
- Type III Hunt class
- * , Later renamed Narvik
- *
Frigates
- Five vessels built.
- * Sank in 1994.
- *
- * , used as target during missile test 2013
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- * transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum.
- Formerly of the Royal Canadian Navy
- * ex-
- * ex-, rebuilt in 1965 to serve as support vessel for torpedo boats under the name.
- * ex-, rebuilt in 1965 to serve as support vessel for submarines under the name HNoMS Horten.
Cutters
- Built at Trondhjems Skibsverft, Trondheim
- * Capitaine Hans Peter Holm
- * General von Krogh
- Captured from Sweden
- * Gripen
Schooners
- Built at Georgernes Verft, Bergen
- * Thor
- * Balder
- * Odin
- * Valkyrjen
- * Nornen
- * Hother
- * Thor
- * Balder
- Built at Trondhjems Skibsverft, Trondheim
- * Patrioten Georg
- * Trondhjem
- * Borgersamfundet
- * Axel Thorsen
- * Skjøn Valborg
- "Bombgun schooners"
- * Sleipner
- * Vale
- * Uller
- Steam powered schooners
- * Gyller
- * Gler
- * Alfen Rerigged and rebuilt as corvette in 1877.
- Paddlesteam schooners
- * Nordcap
- * Æger
- * Vidar
Sloops
- Arendal launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875.
- Augvaldsnæs launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Bergen launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Bodøe launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Bragernæs launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Brevig launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875, then used as a minelayer.
- Christiansund launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Drøbak launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1872 to a catamaran steam gunboat and renamed Trold.
- Egersund launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Farsund launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Flekkefjord launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Fredrikshald launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Hammerfest launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Holmestrand launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Horten launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875 and used as a minelayer.
- Høievarde launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Kaholmen launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Karmøe launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1883 and used as a minelayer.
- Kongsberg launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875. Stricken 1905.
- Kristiansand aka. Christiansand launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875 and used as a minelayer.
- Langesund launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875. Stricken 1905.
- Larvik aka. Laurvig launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875.
- Levanger launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Lillesand launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875 and used as a minelayer.
- Lindesnæs launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Molde launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Moss launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Munkholmen launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Namsos launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Porsgrund launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875. Stricken 1905.
- Sarpsborg launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1872 as a catamaran steam gunboat and renamed Trold. Stricken 1905.
- Skeen launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875. Stricken 1905.
- Skudenæs launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1883. Stricken 1905.
- Soon launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Stat launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Strømsøe launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1872 as a catamaran steam gunboat and renamed Nøk. Stricken 1903.
- Svelvigen launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1872 as a steam gunboat and renamed Dverg. Stricken 1905.
- Sverresborg launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Tananger launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Tangen launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Tromsøe launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Trondhjem launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Tønsberg launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875. Stricken 1905.
- Udsire launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Vardøe launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Vardøhuus launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Aalesund launched between 1840 and 1845.
- Aaasgaardstrand launched between 1840 and 1845. Rebuilt 1875 and used as a minelayer.
Gunboats
- * Ellida
- * Sleipner
- * Viking
- * Frithjof
- *
- ** Vale Rebuilt to minelayer in 1911.
- ** Brage Rebuilt to minelayer in 1912.
- ** Nor Rebuilt to minelayer in 1912.
- ** Uller Rebuilt to minelayer in 1911.
- ** Vidar Rebuilt to minelayer in 1911.
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- ** Gor Rebuilt to minelayer in 1913.
- ** Tyr Rebuilt to minelayer in 1913.
- * Æger
Steam powered gunboats
- Rjukan
- Sarpen
- Lougen
- Glommen
Submarine chasers
- Hessa
- Hitra
- Vigra
- King Haakon VII Former US submarine chaser USS PC 467.
Submarines
- Kobben Renamed A-1 on 21 February 1913. The tower of Kobben is preserved at the Royal Navy Officers' Training School at Horten.
- A class Three vessels were bought in 1913, a fourth was ordered in 1914 but was confiscated by the Imperial German Navy at the outbreak of World War I.
- * A-2
- * A-3
- * A-4
- * A-5 Confiscated by Germany, named UA in 1914 and never entered Norwegian service.
- B class Six vessels of the US Holland type built on licence in Norway from 1922 to 1929.
- * B-1 Escaped to the Faeroe Islands 8 June 1940, later used as a training vessel in Scotland.
- * B-2 Captured by the Germans on 11 April.
- * B-3 Scuttled by own crew on 10 April to prevent German capture.
- * B-4 Captured by the Germans on 10 April.
- * B-5 Captured by the Germans on 11 April and renamed UC-1.
- * B-6 Surrendered to German troops on 18 April under threat of bombing of Florø city. Named UC −2 in German service.
- U class
- * Uredd ex. HMS P41,
- * Ula ex. HMS Varne,, Given to Norway by the UK in 1943
- V class
- * Utstein, ex. HMS Venturer, sold to Norway in 1946.
- * Uthaug, ex. HMS Votary, sold to Norway in 1946.
- * Utvær, ex. HMS Viking, sold to Norway in 1946.
- * Utsira, ex. HMS Variance
- K class
- * Kya, ex-U-926
- * Kaura, ex-U-995
- * Kinn, ex-U-1202
- Kobben class Fifteen vessels built from 1964 to 1967.
- * Kinn Deliberately sunk in Bjørnefjorden in 1990.
- * Kya Transferred to the Royal Danish Navy as HDMS Springeren in 1991.
- * Kobben Transferred to the Polish Navy as ORP Jastrząb to be used for parts.
- * Kunna Transferred to Poland as ORP Kondor in 2004.
- * Kaura Transferred to Denmark to be used for parts in 1991.
- * Ula Changed name to Kinn in 1987. Scrapped in 1998.
- * Utsira Scrapped 1998.
- * Utstein Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in 1998.
- * Utvær Transferred to Denmark as HDMS Tumleren in 1989.
- * Uthaug Transferred to Denmark as HDMS Sælen in 1990.
- * Sklinna Scrapped in 2001.
- * Skolpen Transferred to Poland as ORP Sęp in 2002.
- * Stadt Scrapped.
- * Stord Transferred to Poland as ORP Sokół in 2002.
- * Svenner Also a training ship. To Poland as ORP Bielik in 2003.
Minesweepers
- Børtind Refitted guard vessel
- Otra First purpose built Norwegian minesweeper
- Rauma Second purpose built Norwegian minesweeper
- NYMS class
- * NYMS 247/Vinstra
- * NYMS 306/Gaula
- * NYMS 377/Driva
- * NYMS 379/Alta
- * NYMS 380/Vorma
- * NYMS 381/Begna
- * NYMS 382
- * NYMS 406/Rana
- Sauda class
- * Kvina
- * Ogna
- * Sauda
- * Sira
- * Tana
- * Tista
- * Utla
- * Vosso
- * Glomma
- *
- Syrian
- Nordhav II
- Drøbak
Minelayers
- Glommen class
- *Glommen
- *Laugen
- Frøya
- Olav Tryggvason
- Gor class Formerly US Navy Auk class.
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- *
- *
- *
- Vidar class Two vessels built in Norway.
- * Vidar Sold to the Lithuanian Naval Force in 2006.
- * Vale Given to the Latvian Navy in 2003.
Monitors
- Skorpionen class:
- * Skorpionen
- * Mjølner
- * Thrudvang
- Thor
Offshore patrol vessels
- Heimdal
- Fridtjof Nansen
- Nordkapp
Torpedo boats
- Rap – the first modern torpedo boat.
- Ulven
- 2. class – 27 built from 1882.
- * Lyn
- * Rask
- * Pil
- * Snar
- * Orm
- * Kjell Captured by the Germans and used as a patrol boat under the name KT1, later rebuilt as a minesweeper under the name NK.02 Dragoner, sunk 28 September 1944 by British aircraft.
- 1. class Ten vessels built from 1892.
- 3. class One small harbour and fjord torpedo boat built in 1899.
- * Myg
- * Oter
- * Raket
- * Varg
- * Glimt
- * Djerv Refitted as minesweeper. Sunk by own crew in Sognefjorden.
- * Storm
- * Brand
- * Trods
- * Dristig Refitted as minesweeper. Sunk by own crew in Sognefjorden.
- * Laks
- * Sild
- * Sæl
- * Skrei
- * Hauk
- * Falk
- * Ørn
- * Ravn
- * Grib
- * Jo
- * Lom
- * Skarv
- * Teist
- Trygg class Three 256 ton vessels built between 1919 and 1921
- *Trygg Sunk, then salvaged by the Germans in 1940.
- * Snøgg Captured by the Germans in 1940.
- * Stegg Sunk in battle in 1940.
- MTB 5
- MTB 6
- MTB 56
- MTB 345 Captured by the Germans 28 July 1943, lost in fire the next month
- Fairmile D class aka D class. Ten vessels were in Norwegian service at the end of WWII. Seven of them were used until 1959.
- Elco class Ten vessels received from the US Navy as part of a weapons aid program in 1951.
- * Snøgg ex US Navy PT-602
- * Sel ex US Navy PT-603
- * Sild ex US Navy PT-604
- * Skrei ex US Navy PT-605
- * Snar ex US Navy PT-606
- * Springer ex US Navy PT-608
- * Hai ex US Navy PT-609
- * Hauk ex US Navy PT-610
- * Hval ex US Navy PT-611
- * Hvass ex US Navy PT-612
- Tjeld class aka. Nasty class 20 vessels built in Norway from 1959 to 1966.
- * Tjeld Renamed Sel. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
- * Skarv Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Teist Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Jo Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Lom Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Stegg Renamed Hval. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Naval Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
- * Hauk Renamed Laks. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
- * Falk Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Ravn Renamed Knurr. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
- * Gribb Renamed Delfin. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Was planned to be preserved by Kværner Mandal A/S, but later sold for scrapping.
- * Geir Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Erle Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Sel Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Hval Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Laks Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- * Hai Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Plans are currently underway for Hai to be preserved as a museum ship in Fredrikstad.
- * Knurr Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
- ** Lyr Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
- * Skrei Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Transferred to the Royan Norwegian Navy Museum and preserved as a museum ship.
- * Delfin Given to Friends of the Shetland bus as a preservation project, but the project failed and the ship was given to a private person.
- Rapp class Six vessels built in Norway from 1952 to 1956.
- * Rapp
- * Rask
- Storm class 20 vessels built from 1965 to 1967.
- * Arg
- * Blink
- * Brann
- * Brask
- * Brott
- * Djerv
- * Glimt
- * Gnist
- * Hvass
- * Kjekk
- * Odd
- * Pil
- * Rokk
- * Skjold
- * Skudd
- * Steil
- * Storm
- * Traust
- * Tross
- * Trygg
- Snøgg class Six vessels built from 1970 to 1971.
- * Kjapp
- * Kvikk
- * Rapp
- * Snøgg
- * Rask
- * Snar
- Hauk class
- * Hauk
- * Ørn
- * Terne
- * Teist
- * Tjeld
- * Lom
- * Stegg
- * Ravn
- * Geir
- * Skarv
- * Jo
- * Falk
- * Gribb
- * Erle
Training vessels, school ships
- Christian Radich
- Haakon VII ex-USS Gardiners Bay. School ship. Built as a seaplane tender for the United States Navy.
- Sørlandet
Other ships
- Brabant
- Ormen Lange longship