Type "Droug" ( Norwegian. Draug-klasse ) - a series of Norwegian destroyers . The project was developed by the shipyard of the fleet in Horten in 1906 and resembled British destroyers of the River type .
| type "Droug" | |
|---|---|
| Draug-klasse | |
 The Troll in 1940 | |
| Project | |
| A country |
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| In the ranks | withdrawn from service |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 468 t (standard), 578 t (full) |
| Length | 69.2 m |
| Width | 7.3 m |
| Draft | 2.9 m |
| Engines | 4 boilers triple expansion vertical steam engines Garm: Germania type turbines |
| Power | 7 500 h.p. Garm: 8 000 h.p. |
| Mover | 2 |
| Speed | 26.5 (Garm: 27.4) knots maximum |
| Sailing range | 2,800 miles (at 10 knots ) |
| Crew | 76 people |
| Armament | |
| Artillery | 6 × 1 76 mm / 50 |
| Mine torpedo armament | 3 × 1 swivel 457 mm TA |
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Construction
From 1907 to 1914, three ships of this type were built at the shipyard in Horten, named after creatures from Scandinavian mythology . The third of them, Garm , was built according to a modified design and became the first Norwegian ship with a steam turbine power plant.
Service
Dreug-type destroyers remained the only destroyers in the Norwegian Navy , after the Valkyuren- type destroyers were removed from service, and the only ships of this class built in Norway, before the construction of the new Sleipner type in 1934.
Towards the end of the 1930s, Dreug-type destroyers were put into storage for cost savings, but with the outbreak of World War II they again became part of the fleet.
All three ships took part in repelling the German invasion in April 1940, while the Garm was sunk and the Troll was captured by Germany. The Droug managed to leave for Great Britain , where it was used until 1944, when the ship was withdrawn from service and scrapped. The "troll" was returned to Norway after the war. In 1949, the ship was also decommissioned and sold for scrap.
Representatives
| Title | Bookmark | Launching | Commissioning | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreug Draug | 1907 | March 18, 1908 | 1909 | removed from service in 1944 and scrapped |
| Troll Troll | 1908 | July 7, 1910 | March 13, 1912 | removed from service in 1949 and scrapped |
| Garm Garm | 1912 year | May 27, 1913 | July 6, 1914 | sunk by German aircraft on April 26, 1940 in Sogne Fjord |
Notes
Literature
- A.V. Dashyan. Ships of the Second World War. Navy of Poland and the countries of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland). - Moscow: Model designer, 2005. - 32 p. - (Marine collection No. 3 (72) / 2005).
- All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921 / R. Gardiner. - London: Conway Maritime Press / US Naval Institute Press, 1985 .-- 439 p. - ISBN 0-87021-907-3 .