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HNoMS Glaisdale (L 44)

Escort destroyer of the Hunt (Type III) class

NavyThe Royal Norwegian Navy
TypeEscort destroyer
ClassHunt (Type III) 
PennantL 44 
Built byCammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Feb, 1941 
Launched5 Jan, 1942 
Commissioned12 Jun, 1942 
End service 
Loss position
 
HistoryScrapped in 1961.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Thore Horve
1 June 1942 - 01 June 1943

Lt. Dagfinn Ellif Kjeholt
1 June 1943 - 12 July 1944 


Noteable events involving Glaisdale include:

15 Nov, 1942
HNoMS Glaisdale (Lt.Cdr. T. Horve) picks up 312 survivors from the British troop transport Ettrick that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-155 120 miles northwest of Gibraltar in position 36º13'N, 07º54'W.

11 Jul, 1943
The British escort destoyers HMS Melbreak (Lt. G.E.C.G. Baines, RN), HMS Wensleydale (Lt. W.P. Goodfellow, RNVR) and the Norwegian escort destroyer HNoMS Glaisdale (Lt. D.E. Kjeholt, RNN) intercept a German convoy off Quessant, France. In the resulting battle the German minesweeper M-153 (874 tons) is sunk by the Glaisdale but Melbreak in turn is heavily damaged by the German torpedo boats T-24 and T-25.

23 Jun, 1944
HNoMS Glaisdale (Lt. D.E. Kjeholt, RNN) was badly damaged by a mine off Normandy. She was towed to Hartlepool and taken out of service for the rest of the war. Glaisdale was decommissioned on 12 July 1944.

Repaired at Horten yard, Norway after the war. Served post war from 10 August 1946 until 1961 being renamed HNoMS Narvik (F 309).


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