HNoMS Æger (1936)

	Æger at sea, sometime before the Second World War
History
Norway
Name	Æger
Namesake	Ægir – the Jötunn king of the sea in Norse mythology
Builder	The Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard at Karljohansvern, Horten
Yard number	122
Launched	25 August 1936
Commissioned	1936
Fate	Bombed and beached 9 April 1940
General characteristics
Class and type	Sleipner-class destroyer
Displacement	735 tons
Length	74.30 m (243.77 ft)
Beam	7.75 m (25.43 ft)
Draft	4.15 m (13.62 ft)
Propulsion	Two De Laval geared turbines with two shafts and 12,500 hp
Speed	32 knots (59.26 km/h)
Range	3,500 nautical miles (6,482.00 km) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
Complement	75 men
Armament	3 × 10 cm guns; 1 × 40 mm Bofors L/60; anti-aircraft gun; 2 × 12.7 mm Colt; anti-aircraft machine guns; 2 × 53.3 cm trainable torpedo tubes; 4 × depth charge throwers;
Service record
Commanders:	Captain Niels Larsen Bruun; (? – 9 April 1940);
Operations:	Opposing the German invasion of Norway
Victories:	1 ship (6,780 tons) sunk; 2 bombers downed;

HNoMS Æger was a Sleipner-class destroyer launched at Karljohansvern naval shipyard in Horten in 1936. The Sleipner class was part of a Norwegian rearmament scheme started as war became ever more likely in the 1930s. When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, Æger intercepted and sank the clandestine German supply ship Roda. She was shortly afterwards attacked and sunk by German bombers, claiming two of the attacking aircraft with her anti-aircraft armament before being taken out of action by a heavy bomb. This makes her the first naval ship sunk by aeroplane in hostility.

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