HNoMS Frithjof (1895)

Frithjof in Kiel, 1900
History
Name:	Frithjof
Builder:	Navy Yard, Karljohansvern
Yard number:	76
Launched:	15 November 1895
Commissioned:	1895
Decommissioned:	1928
General characteristics
Class and type:	1. class gunboat
Displacement:	1,280 long tons (1,301 t) or 1,360 long tons (1,382 t) (sources disagree)
Length:	68.17 m (223 ft 8 in)
Beam:	9.98 m (32 ft 9 in)
Draught:	4 m (13 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	Reciprocating steam engine, 2,800 hp (2,088 kW), 2 shafts
Speed:	15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:	154
Armament:	2 × 12 cm (5 in) guns 4 × 76 mm (3 in) QF guns 4 × 1-pounder 37 mm (1 in) automatic gun[1] 1 × 46 cm (18 in) torpedo tube

HNoMS Frithjof was a 1. class gunboat (built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like the 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 yard number 76.

Frithjof served with the Norwegian Navy as a gunboat and cadet training ship until stricken in 1928.

References

1. 1pdr Single

• Naval history via Flix: Frithjof,
• Viking (First Class Gunboat, 1891-1920), retrieved 17 March 2006