HNoMS Hitra
HNoMS Hitra is a Royal Norwegian Navy submarine chaser that saw action during World War II. She is named after the Norwegian island of Hitra.
HNoMS Hitra entering Scalloway harbour in the Shetland Islands, June 2003 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | SC-718 |
| Builder | Fisher Boat Works, Detroit |
| Laid down | 22 September 1942 |
| Launched | 31 March 1943 |
| Commissioned | 25 May 1943 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy, October 1943 |
| Norway | |
| Name | Hitra |
| Namesake | Island of Hitra |
| Commissioned | 26 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 8 December 1954 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold to civilian interests in 1958, gifted to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten in 1981; Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 125 tons |
| Length | 110.6 ft (33.71 m) |
| Beam | 18.8 ft (5.73 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
| Propulsion | Two General Motors diesel engines with 1,200 hp, two shafts. After 1999: Two retrofitted 550 hp MTU 8V 183 TE72 diesel engines. |
| Speed | 20 knots (37.04 km/h). Cruising speed after 1999, with MTU engines: 15,2 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Range | 2,500 nautical miles (4,630.00 km) at 10 knots (18.52 km/h) |
| Complement | 24 men |
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| Notes | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from |
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