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Norwegian A class submarine

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Operators
  
Royal Norwegian Navy

In commission
  
2 March 1914

In service
  
– 16 April 1940

Norwegian A-class submarine

Builders
  
Krupp Germania shipyard at Kiel, Germany

Preceded by
  
No preceding class of submarine, only HNoMS Kobben (A-1)

Succeeded by
  
Norwegian B-class submarine

The A-class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy.

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The Norwegian government purchased four submarines that were almost completed in 1913 and received three of these before World War I. The fourth, A-5, was seized by German authorities at the outbreak of war and commissioned as SM UA. It was used for coastal protection and from 1916 as a training vessel in the Baltic Sea.

Fates

All three A-class submarines were lost during the first week following the German invasion of Norway, one in combat and the other two through scuttling.

  • A-2 (2 March 1914 – 9 April 1940) Attacked and severely damaged by the two German R boat minesweepers R-22 and R-23 off the Vallø peninsula near Tønsberg in the Oslofjord on 9 April 1940. Her crew was captured and she drifted ashore at Vallø, a total wreck.
  • A-3 (1914 – 16 April 1940) Scuttled by own crew in Verkbukta at Tønsberg on 16 April 1940
  • A-4 (1914 – 16 April 1940) Scuttled by own crew in Verkbukta at Tønsberg on 16 April 1940

    • Literature

  • Abelsen, Frank (1986). Norwegian naval ships 1939–1945 (in Norwegian and English). Oslo: Sem & Stenersen AS. ISBN 82-7046-050-8. 

    • References

    Norwegian A-class submarine Wikipedia
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