"The World's largest shipping company" When Germany invaded Norway on April 9-1940, the Norwegian ships that were in allied waters at the time were requisitioned by Royal Norwegian Government, which early on in the war managed to escape to the U.K. (the King was evacuated on June 7). DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER 901 M STREET SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060 Online Library of Selected Images:-- NORWEGIAN NAVY SHIPS --Olav Tryggvason (Minelayer, 1934-1940). NORWEGIAN NAVY 1940-45 (class) BBc Norge TB Kjell TB Skarv TB Jo TB Hval TB Snogg TB Garm . 9th - Germany invaded Denmark and Norway: German Navy forces included a pocket battleship, six cruisers, 14 destroyers, torpedo boats and minesweepers for the landings at the six Norwegian ports, with battlecruisers “Scharnhorst” and “Gneisenau” covering the two most northerly landings. Reported at Skojomen in Aug. 1943, at Horten in May-1944 and at Flensburg in June-1945, returned to Norway. On February 16, 1940 an RAF observation plane sighted the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian territorial waters. List of military aircraft of Norway consists of the aircraft of Royal Norwegian Air Force, established in 1944 with the amalgamation of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service and the Norwegian Army Air Service, both of which were established in 1912.. Below is a list of aircraft used by the Norwegian Air Forces throughout their history. Norwegian Merchant Ships in WW II. The RAF’s Battle of Britain heroics are credited with saving the nation. World War II Armed Forces — Orders of Battle and Organizations: Last Updated 17.12.98 On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended. 23 October 1940 . The Royal Navy was deprived of any support in the Mediterranean, having to face the might of the Italian Navy, the Luftwaffe and even a fiercely neutral, later hostile French navy. SERVING WITH ROYAL NAVY, LOST 1941-1945 . * Most soldiers had a 84 days long basic training, but some even less. Norvegian Navy 1940-45 2 DD Sleipner CM Olav Tryggvason CM Froya CMc Vale CMc Brage CMc Gor CMc Glommen . Draug, old destroyer, strafed by German aircraft, one man wounded . World War II - World War II - The invasion of Norway: British plans for landings on the Norwegian coast in the third week of March 1940 were temporarily postponed. Royal Navy personnel lost on any of the Norwegian ships are in the Royal Navy casualty lists . A Norwegian Navy vessel is to visit Montrose to commemorate the death of World War Two sea dog and navy mascot Bamse. The Norwegian Armed Forces (Norwegian: Forsvaret, "The Defence") is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Norway.It consists of four branches, the Norwegian Army, the Royal Norwegian Navy, which includes the Coast Guard, the Royal Norwegian Air Force, and the Home Guard, as well as several joint departments. THE NORWEGIAN ARMY IN 1940 Norway had nearly disarmed during the 1920s and 1930s, and although it made efforts to correct major deficiencies in equipment, by the time of the German attack most items were still on order rather than in the force structure. WW II: On hire to the Royal Norwegian Navy for neutrality duty from Sept.-1939. The 125 former years of peace, had brought the country to a trance like state when dealing with military matters. The third ship was the Györ, retroceded to Austria on 4/1920 as Compo, and purchased again 10/1927, and … 1941 . Pulled into Hardangerfjord and participated in the fighting there. 10 and 13 April 1940 Location ... Two naval battles were fought at Narvik in 1940. Sent to Nordheimsund on Apr. After the Nazi invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940 the Thorodd was part of the naval opposition to the Germans and had as one of its uses POW transport. 1940 . Military service. ... Nazi Germany's surprise attack on Denmark and Norway in April 1940 caught Norway's navy at anchor. But, argues Nick Hewitt, it was the Royal Navy’s savaging of the German fleet in the battle of Norway in the spring of 1940 that scuttled Hitler’s grand invasion plans The ranks of the Navy and Air Force were swollen by a steady trickle of refugees making their way out of occupied Norway, and their equipment brought up to standard by British and American aircraft and ships. However, Sleipner managed to get to sea and participated in the capture of a German freighter and armed trawler. At the onset of the Second World War, Thorodd was drafted into the Royal Norwegian Navy as a coastal patrol vessel, based in Hammerfest, and Bamse was enrolled as an official crew member on 9 February 1940.