Sleipner class
H48 Sleipner (L01/F300)
Displacement: 735/597 tons
Dimensions: Length 74.3 m, width 7.8 m, depth 2.8 m.
Machinery * 2 De Laval turbines, 12,500 BHP, 30 knots
Crew: 75 man
Weapons:
1936:
3 * 102mm L/40 guns
1 * 40mm Bofors L/60 gun
2 * 0.5" machine guns (must find out where it should be. but think it should be just under the 40mm Bofors)
2 * 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
1953:
3 * 76mm cannon
2 * 40mm cannon
220mm cannon
Built by the Navy Main Yard, Horten, building number 120
Launched on 7, May 1936
1940: Participated in the battles in Romsdalen 9 April
1940: Shot down a German plane that crashed at Nordvik in Romsdalen 22 April
1940: Arrived in Shetland 27 April
1940: repaired and partly rebuilt
1940: Granted number H 48
1940: Escort service on the east coast of Britain
1945: Sailed to Norway in May
1946: New No. 01 L
1948: Converted to frigate
1950: New number F 300
1959: scrapped and sold for scrap at the "Brødrene Anda, Stavanger.
there were also five other ships in the Sleipner class.
"Æger" sank the German vessel "Roda". Was bombed to total wreck of the German planes later in the day 8 men were killed.
"Gyller" Taken over by German forces. Partly rebuilt and christened "Lowe"
"Odin" Taken over by German forces. Partly rebuilt and christened "Panther"
"Tor" Sunk by the crew docked in Fredrikstad 9 April. Raised by the Germans and rebuilt and renamed "Tiger"
"Balder" Taken over by German forces at karljohansværn in Horten. Partly rebuilt and renamed "Leopard"
"Balder" was just completed and it was not hoisted Norwegian command on the boat yet. it was first hoisted Norwegian command for the first time on the boat in 1946.