HNoMS Gyller (1938)
HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-class destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1938. Along with the other Sleipner-class vessels in commission at that time, she took part in protecting Norwegian neutrality during the Second World War. After initially serving in the far north during the Finno-Soviet Winter War, she was redeployed to Southern Norway, escorting ships through Norwegian territorial waters. When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, she was docked at Kristiansand. After taking part in the defence of the port city, she was captured intact by the invading Germans. Renamed Löwe, she sailed with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for the duration of the war. Her perhaps most notable event in German service was escorting the evacuation ship Wilhelm Gustloff when the latter
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HNoMS Gyller (1938)
HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-class destroyer commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1938. Along with the other Sleipner-class vessels in commission at that time, she took part in protecting Norwegian neutrality during the Second World War. After initially serving in the far north during the Finno-Soviet Winter War, she was redeployed to Southern Norway, escorting ships through Norwegian territorial waters. When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, she was docked at Kristiansand. After taking part in the defence of the port city, she was captured intact by the invading Germans. Renamed Löwe, she sailed with Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for the duration of the war. Her perhaps most notable event in German service was escorting the evacuation ship Wilhelm Gustloff when the latter
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HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-cl ...... nd sold for scrapping in 1959.
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1940-04-11
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1940-04-09
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1938-07-07
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Handed back to Norway afterVE Day
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Opposing the German invasion of Norway
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*1 × 10,5 cm main gun
*1 × 40 ...... 3.3 cm torpedo tubes
*24 mines
*3 × 10 cm main guns
*1 × 40 m ...... bes
*4 × depth charge throwers
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Ship namesake
Gyller – one of the twelve horses of the Æsir
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Two De Laval geared turbines with two shafts and 12,500 hp
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HNoMS Gyller was a Sleipner-cl ...... helm Gustloff when the latter
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HNoMS Gyller (1938)
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Gyller
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Löwe
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