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{{Authority control 1853 establishments in Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Maritime museums in Norway Museums in Vestfold og Telemark Military history of Norway Naval museums Museums established in 1853 Military and war museums in Norway
Norwegian
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: ''Marinemuseet'') is a museum documenting the history of the Royal Norwegian Navy
The Royal Norwegian Navy ( no, Sjøforsvaret, , Sea defence) is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of Norway. , the Royal Norwegian Navy consists of approximately 3,700 personnel (9,450 in mobilized state, 3 ...
. It is located at the former main naval base of Karljohansvern
Karjohansvern (''Karljohansvern Orlogsstasjon, KJV'') at Horten was the main base for the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1850 to 1963.
Background
In 1818, it was decided to establish a naval base in Horten. It was first called ''Hortens verft'', an ...
in Horten
is a town and municipality in Vestfold in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the town of Åsgårdstrand an ...
. The museum was founded by C.F. Klinck on 24 August 1853. The museum is sometimes regarded as the world's first naval museum, as it was the first collection of naval memorabilia open to the public.
The collection
The collection contains several decommissioned ships, much equipment used by the Norwegian, Allied and German navies and ship models, paintings and pictures. In the 1980s the Royal Norwegian Navy Library was transferred to the museum. The library's book collection started in 1805. The Museum and Library have a book collection of about 25,000 volumes. In addition the museum has preserved all of the navy's ship log books from 1814 to today. Parts of the Museum was however destroyed during an allied bombing raid on Horten in February 1945. The museum also preserves ship designs and has an archive of Navy rules and regulations from about 1750 to today, with about 4,500 volumes.The ships
* — aSauda class minesweeper
The ''Sauda'' class was a class of nine minesweepers and one minehunter in service for the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1953 to 1996. The class was designed at Sparkman & Stephens Inc., New York City, as an improvement of the (Norwegian Yard Mine Swe ...
still sailing and based in Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
.
* — a Storm class patrol boat
The ''Storm''-class patrol boat was a series of fast patrol boats (FPB) consisting of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy.
In Norwegian these boats were called ''missilkanonbåter'' (MKB) meaning boats with missiles and guns. They were ...
.
* (ex USN SC‑718) — a "Shetland bus
The Shetland Bus (Norwegian Bokmål: ''Shetlandsbussene'', def. pl.) was the nickname of a clandestine special operations group that made a permanent link between Mainland Shetland in Scotland and German-occupied Norway from 1941 until the su ...
" still sailing and based in Bergen
Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...
.
* — an Oslo class frigate
The ''Oslo''-class frigate is a Royal Norwegian Navy frigate design of the 1960s, based on the US Navy destroyer escorts. The forward hull was customized to suit Norwegian sea conditions better (higher freeboard) and several sub-systems were Eu ...
.
* — the world's first torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated to ramming enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes. Later evolutions launched variants of se ...
.
* — a Tjeld class patrol boat
The ''Tjeld'' class was a class of twenty fast patrol boats designed and built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the late 1950s.
They were used as torpedo boats in Norway where this type of vessel were called MTBs or motor torpedo boats (''motortor ...
.
* — a Kobben class submarine
The ''Kobben'' class (also known as Type 207) is a customized version of the German Type 205 submarine. Fifteen vessels of this class were built for use by the Royal Norwegian Navy in the 1960s. The class later saw service with Denmark and Pol ...
.
See also
*Bamse (St. Bernard)
Bamse (Norwegian language, Norwegian for "(male) bear", "teddy bear" or "big boy") (1937 – 22 July 1944) was a St. Bernard (dog), St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the World War II, Second World Wa ...
- World War II naval dog honoured at the museum
References
External links
Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page (Norwegian)
{{Authority control 1853 establishments in Norway Royal Norwegian Navy Maritime museums in Norway Museums in Vestfold og Telemark Military history of Norway Naval museums Museums established in 1853 Military and war museums in Norway