Royal Norwegian Navy Museum

The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum ("Marinemuseet" in Norwegian) is a museum documenting the history of the Royal Norwegian Navy. It is located at the former main naval base of Karljohansvern in Horten. The museum was founded by C.F. Klinck on 24 August 1853. The museum is sometimes regarded as the world's first naval museum, as it was the first collection of naval memorabilia open to the public.

The collection

The collection contains several decommissioned ships, much equipment used by the Norwegian, Allied and German navies and ship models, paintings and pictures. In the 1980s the Royal Norwegian Navy Library was transferred to the museum. The library's book collection started in 1805. The Museum and Library have a book collection of about 25,000 volumes. In addition the museum has preserved all of the navy's ship log books from 1814 to today. The museum also preserves ship designs and has an archive of Navy rules and regulations from about 1750 to today, with about 4,500 volumes.

The ships

* HNoMS Alta (M314) — a Sauda class minesweeper still sailing and based in Oslo.
* HNoMS Blink — a Storm class patrol boat.
* HNoMS Hitra (ex USN SC‑718) — a "Shetland bus" still sailing and based in Bergen.
* HNoMS Narvik (F304) — an Oslo class frigate.
* HNoMS Rap — the world's first torpedo boat.
* HNoMS Skrei — a Tjeld class patrol boat.
* HNoMS Utstein — a Kobben class submarine.

ee also

*Bamse (St. Bernard) - WWII naval dog hounored at the museum

External links

* [http://www.fmu.mil.no/marine/Marinemuseet.htm Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page]
* [http://www.mil.no/felles/mmu/start/ Royal Norwegian Navy Museum web page at mil.no]
* [http://www.hnsa.org/ships/alta.htm HNSA Web Page: M314 Alta]