- Royal Norwegian Navy Museum
The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum ("Marinemuseet" in Norwegian) is a museum documenting the history of the
Royal Norwegian Navy . It is located at the former main naval base of Karljohansvern inHorten . The museum was founded by C.F. Klinck on24 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
1980 s the Royal Norwegian Navy Library was transferred to the museum. The library's book collection started in1805 . 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 from1814 to today. The museum also preserves ship designs and has an archive of Navy rules and regulations from about1750 to today, with about 4,500 volumes.The ships
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HNoMS Alta (M314) — aSauda class minesweeper still sailing and based inOslo .
*HNoMS Blink — aStorm class patrol boat .
*HNoMS Hitra (exUSN SC‑718 ) — a "Shetland bus " still sailing and based inBergen .
*HNoMS Narvik (F304) — anOslo class frigate .
*HNoMS Rap — the world's firsttorpedo boat .
*HNoMS Skrei — aTjeld class patrol boat .
*HNoMS Utstein — aKobben class submarine .ee also
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Bamse (St. Bernard) - WWII naval dog hounored at the museumExternal links
* [http://www.fmu.mil.no/marine/Marinemuseet.htm Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page]
* [http://www.mil.no/felles/mmu/start/ Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page at mil.no]
* [http://www.hnsa.org/ships/alta.htm HNSA Web Page: M314 Alta]
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