HNoMS Honningsvåg

	Honningsvåg off Iceland
History
Germany
Name	Malangen
Builder	G. Seebeck A.G. at Wesermünde (present-day Bremerhaven),; part of Deutsche Schiff- und Maskinenbau A-G Werk;
Yard number	645
Launched	February 1940
Captured	by Norwegian militia on 13 April 1940
Norway
Name	Honningsvåg
Namesake	Port of Honningsvåg
Acquired	13 April 1940
Commissioned	23 April 1940
Decommissioned	22 August 1946
Fate	Sold to civilian interests in 1947, scrapped in 1973
Service record
Commanders:	Lieutenant A. E. T. Plyhn
Operations:	Norwegian Campaign; Battle of the Atlantic;
Victories:	1 ship (192 tons) sunk
General characteristics
Tonnage	487 gross register tons
Length	177.2 ft (54.01 m)
Beam	27.5 ft (8.38 m)
Draft	16.3 ft (4.97 m)
Installed power	1,000 ihp (750 kW)
Propulsion	1 × shaft; 1 × Triple-expansion steam engine
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament	Norwegian Campaign:; 1 × 47 mm gun; 2 × 12.7 mm Colt Browning AA machine guns; After UK rebuild:; 1 × QF 4 in Mk XII gun; 1 × 2 pounder "pom-pom" autocannon; 4 × 12.7 mm Colt Browning AA machine guns; 50 × 450 lb depth charges with two throwers;
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HNoMS Honningsvåg was a naval trawler that served throughout the Second World War as a patrol boat in the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was launched at the North Sea harbour of Wesermünde in Hanover, Germany in February 1940 as the fishing trawler Malangen and was captured by Norwegian militiamen at the North Norwegian port of Honningsvåg during her maiden fishing journey to the Barents Sea. Having taken part in the defence of Norway in 1940 she spent the rest of the war years patrolling the ocean off Iceland. She was decommissioned in 1946, sold to a civilian fishing company in 1947 and scrapped in 1973.

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