The ''Glommen''-class was a class of two
minelayer
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s built for the
Royal Norwegian Navy
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during the
First World War
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at
Akers Mekaniske Verksted
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in
Oslo
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.
Service history
The two vessels were kept in service until the
German invasion of Norway in 1940. ''Glommen'' and ''Laugen'' operated in the area around
Melsomvik
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, and surrendered to the Germans on 14 April 1940. The Germans rebuilt both of them as floating flak batteries, and renamed them ''Nki-01'' and ''Nki-02''.
''Glommen'' was scuttled at
Kirkenes
(Norwegian language, Norwegian; ), (Northern Sami language, Northern Sami; , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, in the far northeastern part of Norway. The town lies on a peninsu ...
by the retreating Germans in 1944, while ''Laugen'' was returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1945, and decommissioned and sold for in 1950.
References
Naval history via FLIX: KNM Glommen retrieved 17 March 2006
retrieved 17 March 2006
{{Norwegian minelayers
Mine warfare vessel classes