Royal Norwegian Navy
The
Royal Norwegian Navy provides the coastal defense of
Norway. As of 2002, the Navy consisted of approximately 8000 personnel and 40 vessels, consisting of 4 frigates, 6 submarines, 14 missile torpedo vessels, 1 minelayer, 8 minesweepers, 1 mine detection vessel, 3 landing craft, 1 support vessel, 2 training vessels. The Navy also oversees the Coast Guard, comprising 10 vessels and land-based coastal defenses containing artillery, torpedo and missile batteries.
Ships of the Navy (both past and present):
- HNoMS Alta - minesweeper
- HNoMS Bergen - frigate
- HNoMS Glomma - minesweeper
- HNoMS Hessa - submarine chaser
- HNoMS Hitra - submarine chaser
- HNoMS Horten
- HNoMS Kaura, ex U-995 - submarine
- HNoMS Kinn, ex U-1202 - submarine
- HNoMS Kobben - submarine
- HNoMS Kvina - minesweeper
- HNoMS Kya, ex U-926 - submarine
- HNoMS Narvik - frigate
- HNoMS Ogna - minesweeper
- HNoMS Sauda - minesweeper
- HNoMS Sira - minesweeper
- HNoMS Skjold - fast patrol craft
- HNoMS Skrei
- HNoMS Tana - minesweeper
- HNoMS Tyr - minesweeper, discovered wreck of U-735 in 1999
- HNoMS Tista - minesweeper
- HNoMS Trondheim - frigate
- HNoMS Utla - minesweeper
- HNoMS Vigra - submarine chaser
- HNoMS Vosso - minesweeper
(note: HNoMS for His Norwegian Majesty's Ship is usually used in English, while KNM, which denounces Kongelige Norske Marine, is the correct term in Norwegian.)
Ships of the Coast Guard: