An item reported that the Norwegian cadet training ships Tordenskjold (1) and Harold Haarfrage (2) arrived on 22 July Leith, Scotland; both ships visited before Portsmouth, England.
Notes
1. Of the Tordenskjold-class consisting of the Harald Haarfrage and Tordenskjold, succeeded by the Eidsvold-class. She was named after Peter Tordenskjold, ordered in 1896 to be build at the yard of Armstrong at Newcastle, England, laid down a year later, launched on 18 March 1897, commissioned on 21 March 1898, since 1918 used as a cadet training ship, captured by German forces in April 1940 at Narvik, fitted out in 1941 at Kiel as a floating flak battery and renamed Nymphe and commissioned in March that year, in German service serving mainly around North Norway as protection of the there station German forces and later also around Kiel, returned to Norway at the end of the Second World War and after being used as barrack broken up in 1948. Apparently she was in the mid 1930’s considered as non value for war purposes.
2. Of the Tordenskjold-class consisting of the Harald Haarfrage and Tordenskjold, succeeded by the Eisdsvold-class. Building ordered in 1896, laid down by Armstrong, Whitworth&Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England with yard number 648 on 18 March 1896, launched on 4 January 1897, commissioned on 21 March 1898, captured by German forces in 1940, rebuilt as the floating anti aircraft battery Thetis, returned to Norway in 1945, used s accommodation ship and for transporting German prisoners of war, sold to be broken up in 1947 and broken up in 1948. In German Kriegsmarine service served she in Norwegian waters for instance protecting the German battleship Tirpitz.
Source
The National Archives CAB-24-109-98. Secret Admiralty Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 3 dated 24 July 1920.
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