Trygg-class torpedo boat

Trygg-class torpedo boat
The lead Trygg class torpedo boat Trygg at sea
Class Overview
Class type:	Torpedo boat
Preceded by:	2. class torpedo boat
Succeeded by:	No further torpedo boat classes in the Royal Norwegian Navy
Ships of the line:	Trygg, Snøgg and Stegg
General Characteristics
Displacement:	256 tons
Length:	53.00 m
Beam:	5.50 m
Draft:	1.58 m
Speed:	25 knots (45.9 km/h)
Complement:	33
Power:	3,600 shp
Drive:	Steam turbine
Fuel:	Oil
Armament:	2 x 76 mm guns 1 x 20 mm Oerlikon AA gun 2 x double 45 cm torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt: Bulkheads: Barbettes: Turrets: Decks: Conning tower:

The Trygg class was the third and last class of torpedo boats to be built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. The three Trygg ships were constructed from 1919 to 1921 at Moss ship yard (Trygg) and Horten naval yard (Snøgg and Stegg).

Although much larger and better armed than its predecessors, the sigar-shaped 1. and 2. class torpedo boats, the Trygg class was far from modern when it was called upon during the Norwegian campaign in 1940.

The class was named after its first ship, the Trygg - trygg is Norwegian for safe, secure, dependable.

Abilities

The Trygg class had a fairly substantial armament for being small ships of relatively early design. Each carried two 76 mm main guns, a Oerlikon 20 mm autocannon for anti-aircraft defence, as well as two twin 45 cm torpedo tubes. Combined with a reasonable speed of 25 knots and good seaworthyness this enabled the Trygg class vessels to operate effectively both in cooperation with other naval units and on their own. In the fighting that followed the German invasion on 9 April 1940 the Trygg class would see first line action as its ships were often all that was available to the Norwegian forces.

Fates

All three Trygg vessels were lost during World War II, one while in Norwegian service and two after having been pressed into service as Torpedoboot Ausland by their German captors.

• Trygg, commanded by Frantz W. Munster, played an instumental part in the defence of the Romsdalsfjord area in northern Vestlandet. She defended ship traffic and supported allied landing in the Molde - Åndalsnes area (Battle of Åndalsnes) until being hit by a German bomb on 25 April, 1940 and sinking in shallow waters the next day. Trygg was salvaged by the Germans in the fall of 1940 and put into service as the patrol boat Zick . The Zick was sunk off Bergen on 23 October 1944 by British planes.

• Snøgg,