| Name: | HARALD HAARFAGRE |
| Type: | Coastal Defence Ship |
| Keel: | 18/03/1896 |
| Launched: | 04/01/1897 |
| Completed: | 18/12/1897 |
| Builder: | Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co |
| Yard: | Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 648 |
| Dimensions: | 3435disp, 280.0 x 48.6 x 16.7(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x VT3cyl (24, 35.5 & 54ins x 30ins), 4560ihp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn Leslie Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 16.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 2 x 1 x 8.2ins, 6 x 1 x 4.7ins, 6 x 1 x 12pdr guns, 2 x 2 x 18.0ins torpedoes; |
| (1940: 6 x 1 x 10.5cms, 2 x 1 x 40mm, 14 x 1 x 20mm AA guns) | |
| History: | |
| 10/06/1897 | Royal Norwegian Navy |
| 1940 | Government of Germany; renamed THETIS |
| 1945 | Royal Norwegian Navy; renamed HARALD HAARFAGRE |
| 1947 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Often referred to as a Battleship, but of very limited range |
| HARALD HAARFAGRE and TORDENSKJOLD were sister ships | |
| 1939: Disarmed as part of Norwegian neutrality | |
| 1940: Converted by Germany into a floating antiaircraft battery | |
| 1943: Used as a floating listening post for the German battleship TIRPITZ | |
| 1945: Used as a floating barracks | |
| 1947: Broken up at Stavanger |
HARALD HAARFAGRE (front), TORDENSKJOLD (rear). Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums
HARALD HAARFAGRE on the berth 02/06/1896. Above photo is copyright of Tyne & Wear Museums
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