The Norwegian Navy in WW2

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Everybody remembered the Norwegian Campaign. It seems at first a contest between the Kriegsmarine (which had remendous losses), and the British and French Navies. But the Norwegian Navy, despite its small size did surprisingly well, using also coastal batteries at the best of its capabilities. The Norwegian campaign of 1940 surely left Hitler a sour taste towards the surface navy for the remainder of the war.
Norway was one of the stakes of the war, with its resources (iron and other metals, coal, and heavy water for an hypothetical nuclear program) and its considerable coastline on the North Atlantic and the Arctic. A Strategic position, it became a target all the more tempting that the Royal Norwegian army was weak, as well as its navy and its aviation.

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8 thoughts on “The Norwegian Navy in WW2”

  2. It is unfair historically to praise Norway for putting up a longer-lasting defense against the German Kriegsmarine, Wehrmacht, and Luftwaffe than Poland was able to put up against German military forces in WWII. For one thing, Poland was a much poorer nation than Norway; for another, Poland—-UNLIKE NORWAY—-had to contend with two simultaneous military invasions at once: one of the Germans from the West, and another from the Soviet Red Army in the East.
    A more valid comparison might be between Norway’s resistance to the Nazis and Finland’s surprisingly staunch resistance and even victories over the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939-1940. Unlike Norway, Finland never surrendered; infinitely outnumbered by the Soviet Red Army and much less technologically advanced, the Finnish Defense Forces inflicted very heavy losses on the Soviets, and ended up ceding only 9% of its territory to the Soviets when the Winter War ended. And again unlike Norway, Finland had *NO ALLIES* in the Winter War itself. Finland only begrudgingly accepted the help of Nazi Germany against the Soviets after the Winter War had ended, and WWII had begun in earnest on the Eastern Front.

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  6. My father stepped off the HMNS Eskdale – a Hunt class destroyer – just hours before she was torpedoed with heavy loss of life by an E-boat outside Portsmouth. He was a German speaker involved in the Huff Duff programme. His next miracle was being on a commandeered paddle wheel Channel steamer in the Aegean and watching a German torpedo pass right underneath the deck they were standing on. The German U-boat mis-judged the shallow draft of this unusual vessel. Why a paddle wheel steamer? Because
    all radio direction equipment ran on fragile glass valves and the paddle wheel steamer had the least vibration of available vessels. The transistor had yet to be invented.

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