HNoMS Hitra

HNoMS Hitra

The HNoMS "Hitra" (Norwegian prefix "KNM") is a Royal Norwegian Navy submarine chaser that saw action during World War II. She is named after the Norwegian island of Hitra.

History

The "Hitra" was originally built as SC-718 for the United States Navy, but was transferred to the Shetland Bus organisation in August 1943, under the auspices of US Admiral Harold R. Stark. The "Hitra" and her sister vessels "Hessa" and "Vigra" supeseded the famous fleet of civilian fishing boats that ran naval operations between Shetland and Norway.

After the war the "Hitra" performed coast guard duties until 1953. All three submarine chasers were mothballed at Marvika and formally decommissioned in 1959.

She seemingly ended her days in Karlskrona, Sweden when she sank after someone had opened the bottom valves. It was not until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 ("Whiskey on the rocks") ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned "Hitra" in a newspaper image. Subsequently, she was raised and shipped back to Norway, where she was restored to her original condition in 1983-1987. [http://www.mil.no/sjo/start/aktuelt/article.jhtml?articleID=163163 Open ship on board HNoMS "Hitra"] , mil.no no icon]

Today, the "Hitra" is a museum ship homeported at Haakonsvern, Bergen, touring the Norwegian coast in the summer months.

Footnotes

Literature

* Abelsen, Frank: "Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945", Sem & Stenersen AS, Oslo 1986 ISBN 82-7046-050-8

ee also

* List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons

External links

* [http://www.mil.no/sjo/hos/start/hitra/ Norwegian Defence Force website on the vessel] no icon


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