Ålesund-class destroyer
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ålesund-class destroyer |
| Builders | Horten naval dockyard |
| Operators | Royal Norwegian Navy |
| Planned | 2 |
| Completed | 0 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer |
| Displacement | 1,220 long tons (1,240 t) standard |
| Length | 100 m (328 ft 1 in) o/a |
| Beam | 9.9 m (32 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | 30,000 shp (22,000 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
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The Ålesund class was a proposed class of destroyers planned for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Construction began on two ships in 1938, but the incomplete ships were captured during the German invasion of Norway in 1940. While Germany continued construction works on the two destroyers, neither were completed, with one sunk by sabotage in 1944 and the other by British bombers in 1945. The Norwegians raised one of the destroyers and attempted to complete it, but the incomplete ship was sold for scrap in 1956.