page_title: HNoMS Tordenskjold
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: HNoMS Tordenskjold / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Models of the HNoMS Tordenskiold (foreground) and HNoMS Eidsvold (rear). Picture taken by uploader at the Armed Forces Museum in Oslo, Norway. Released under the GFDL.
context_page_description: HNoMS Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship, Harald Haarfagre, and the slightly newer Eidsvold class were built as a part of the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905. Tordenskjold remained an important vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy until she was considered unfit for war in the mid-1930s.
context_section_description: Built at Elswick and nearly identical to her sister ship Harald Haarfagre, Tordenskjold was named after Peter Wessel Tordenskjold, an eminent Norwegian naval hero in the service of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. Built as a typical pre-dreadnought battleship on a small scale, she carried guns of a wide range of calibers: two 8.2-inch guns in barbettes, six 4.7-inch, six 3-inch, and six smaller quick-firing guns. The ship could manage a speed of over seventeen knots. Protected by belt armor of seven inches thickness, the ship also featured gun barbettes with nearly eight inches of steel armor and an armored deck.
caption: Models of the coastal defence ship Tordenskiold and Eidsvold. Tordenskjold in the front.
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