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Tiger

Torpedoboot 1940 - 1959  Sleipner  Class


Tiger (former Tor)

Captured Norwegian Kustjagare Tor


Contruction Data

Laid down:     Marinens Hovedverft. Horten 1937
Launched:     07.09.1939
Commissioned:     13.06.1940 (in German services)
Fate:     scrapped 1959
Costs:     

Technical Data

Size:     708 t
Length:     74,10 m
Beam:     7,75 m
Draft:     2,82 m
Armament:     2 x 10 cm (1 x 10,5 cm sine 1941); 1 x 4 cm;
  2 x 2 cm (4 since 1941); 2 x 53,3 cm torpedo tubes; 24 mines
Performance:     12500 shp, 30kn

History

After the invasion of Norway, the Kriegsmarine captured four torpedo boats of the Norwegian Sleipner class, which were modern
ships just commissioned before the war.  Being quite small vessels, the ships were not used for combat action but for U-boat training in the Baltic Sea since 1942.  After the war, all four ships were returned to Norway were they first served as training vessels, but were later refitted as patrol boats with reduced armament and boiler power. 

The Tor was scuttled during the German occupation of Norway on 09.04.1940. Raised and repaired, it was commissioned on
13.06.1940 as Tiger . It was also reclassified as a Torpedofangboot in January of 1942. Returned to Norway in 1949 it was converted into an escort vessel and scrapped in 1959.


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