HNoMS Hitra Totally Explained

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The HNoMS Hitra (Norwegian prefix "KNM") is a Royal Norwegian Navy submarine chaser that saw action during World War II. She is named after the Norwegian island of Hitra.

History

The Hitra was originally built as SC-718 for the United States Navy, but was transferred to the Shetland Gang in August 1943 because of Admiral Harold R. Stark's intervention. The Hitra and her sister vessels Hessa and Vigra complemented a fleet of civilian fishing boats that ran naval operations between Shetland and Norway.
   After the war the Hitra performed coast guard duties until 1953. All three submarine chasers were mothballed at Marvika and formally decommissioned in 1959.
   She seemingly ended her days in Karlskrona, Sweden when she sank after someone had opened the bottom valves. It wasn't until 1981, when the Soviet submarine U 137 (Whiskey on the rocks) ran aground, that S. Moen, the director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten saw the abandoned Hitra in a newspaper image. Subsequently, she was raised and shipped back to Norway, where she was restored to her original condition.
   Today, the Hitra is a museum ship homeported at Haakonsvern, Bergen, touring the Norwegian coast in the summer months.

Footnotes

Literature

Abelsen, Frank: Norwegian naval ships 1939-1945, Sem & Stenersen AS, Oslo 1986 ISBN 82-7046-050-8

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