Oh, out of interest, what was the prevalence of English speakers in the Norwegian Navy...
I do not know, but I believe they did because the Norwegian Navy used to get much of the equipment's from england, those old coastal battleships were also built in England.
Fridtjof Nansen
Icebreaker
Participated in the evacuation of Tromsø 7 June
sailed to Britain, sent later to Iceland to reinforce British forces in
sank off Jan Mayen 8.nov
Nordkapp class.
was sunk by German forces 9 April but was mysteriously some come over to England 12 June.
1943 Iceland
1944 Scapa Flow
1945 to bake in Norway 20 May
Command ship
Heimdal
1892
1940 arrived lewick, UK 14 June
1940-
Town class destroyer
G76, G42, I17, G54 and I15
they were all equipped differently
Savage class destroyer
G26 HMS Success (G26/J01/D300 Bermuda)
G03 HMS Shark (G03 Svenner)
Crescent-class destroyer
HMS Crown (D303 KNM Oslo)
HMS Cromwell (D304 KNM Bergen)
HMS Crozier (D305 KNM Trondheim)
J05 HMS Crystal (D306 KNM Stavanger)
Hunt class destroyer type 2 and 3/Frigatt
L44 Glaisdale (J21/D309/F309 KNM Narvik)
L03 Badsworth (J22/D310/F310 KNM Arendal)
D311/F311 KNM Tromsø
D312F312 KNM Haugesund
L36 HMS Eskdale
Frigate
River class / Depot Ship
Historic Motor Sport Commission Pentang (F313 KNM Draug)
Historic Motor Sport Commission Prestonian (F314 KNM Troll / A530 KNM Horten)
Historic Motor Sport Commission Toronto (F315 KNM Garm / A535 KNM Valkyrien)
Corvette
Flower class / Frigate
K01 HMS Acanthus (K01/F307 KNM Andenes)
K197 HMS Eglantine (K02/F308 KNM Sørøy)
K208 HMS Montbretia
K193 HMS Buttercup (K03/F309/F306 KNM Nordkyn)
K102 Rose
K214 Potentilla
Castle class
K374 HMS Tunsberg Castle
Submarine
U class
HMS P41 (P41 Fearless (Fearless))
V class
HMS P66 Varna Ula (U01/S300 KNM Ula)
HMS Variance (P58/S301 KNM Utsira)
HMS Venturer (S302 KNM Utstein)
HMS Viking (S303 KNM Utvær)
HSE Votary (S304 KNM Uthaug)
Motor Torpedo Vessels
MTB (1, 2, 3 and 4) unknown class
Vosper class
MTB (5, 6, 7 (MTB71) and 8)
Thornycroft class
MTB (50, 51, 52, 54 and 56)
Thornycroft eksperimentbåt
MTB 345
Speed: 50 knots (with half the engine power used by other MTBs in the same size.)
Fair Mile D class
MTB (618, 619, 620, 623, 625, 626, 627, 631, 653, 688, 704 (B81 KNM Orn), 709, 711 (B82/P343 KNM Falk), 712, 713 (B83 KNM Hauk), 715 , 716 (B84/P344 Ramnes KNM), 717 (B85/P345 Stegger KNM), 719 (B86/P346 KNM Cormorant), 720 (B87/P347 KNM Lom, 721 (B88/P348 KNM Black Guillemot, 722 (B89/P349 KNM Jo) and 723 (B90/P350 KNM Oystercatcher))
There were only five vessels that managed to get over to England. what is interesting is that the government had started booking of new coastal battleships that would replace the old museum objects of coastal battleship.