HNoMS ''Nasty'' was a

fast attack craft A fast attack craft (FAC) is a small, fast, agile, offensive, often affordable warship armed with anti-ship missiles, gun or torpedoes. FACs are usually operated in close proximity to land as they lack both the seakeeping and all-round defensive ...

of the

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, built as a private venture by Westermoen Båtbyggeri of

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Designed by Jan Herman Linge she was an experimental craft, of wooden hull construction, launched in 1958. ''Nasty'' served with the Royal Norwegian Navy and was the prototype for the navies ''Tjeld'' class patrol boats. Boats to ''Nasty's'' design were also built for the US and German navies. ''Nasty'' was stricken in 1967.Conway p294

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* Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen ''Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995'' (1995) Naval Institute Press, Annapolis {{DEFAULTSORT:Nasty, HNoMS Torpedo boats of the Royal Norwegian Navy Motor torpedo boats of the Royal Norwegian Navy Napier Deltic 1958 ships Ships built in Mandal, Norway