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Navy	The Royal Norwegian Navy
Type	Coastal defence ship
Class	Eidsvold
Pennant
Built by	Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd. (Elswick), Newcastle upon Tyne, England, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	14 Jun, 1900
Commissioned	29 Mar, 1901
Lost	9 Apr, 1940
Loss position

History	Eidsvold (Capt. Odd Isaachsen Willoch) was torpedoed and sunk at Narvik during the German invasion of Norway by torpedoes from the German destroyer Z 21 / Wilhelm Heidkamp. 175 of the crew went down with the ship, there were only 6 survivors. Captain Willoch's last words "Nå skal vi sloss gutter", "Now we shall fight lads" is a famus slogan in Norway.

HNoMS Eidsvold