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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Gor			MV Horten	1884	7.5.1884	1885	captured by Germany 13.5.1940
Tyr			MV Horten	1887	16.3.1887	1887	captured by Germany 20.4.1940 (Tyr)

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	273
Displacement full, t	Gor: 290 Tyr: 278
Length, m	31.3
Breadth, m	8.50
Draught, m	2.20
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VC, 2 boilers
Power, h. p.	420
Max speed, kts	10.5
Fuel, t	coal 22
Endurance, nm(kts)	750(10)
Armament	Gor: 1 x 1 - 263/27 RK L/30 C/84 No.2, 1 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow) Tyr: 1 x 1 - 263/27 RK L/30 C/84 No.2, 1 x 1 - 57/40 Hotchkiss, 2 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss, 1 - 356 TT (bow)
Complement	44

Standard scale images

Project history

Coastal gunboats of so-called "Elswick" type.

Modernizations

1914, both were converted to minelayers: - 1 x 1 - 263/27; + 1 x 1 - 120/44 Armstrong Y, 55 mines

1920s, Gor: - 1 x 1 - 37/20; + 1 x 1 - 76/28 Bofors

1920s, Tyr: - 1 x 1 - 57/40; + 1 x 1 - 47/46 Bofors

Naval service

Gor 13.5.1940 was captured by German minesweeper М1 off Bremanger and commissioned by Germans as auxiliary. Tyr was captured 20.4.1940 by German armed trawler at Uskedal, commissioned by Germans under own name, returned to Norway after war and immediately scrapped.