HNoMS Rauma (1939)
HNoMS Rauma just after launch in Oslo, 26 September 1939. Havnelageret in the background. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Norway | |
| Name | Rauma |
| Namesake | The river Rauma |
| Builder | Nylands Verksted, Oslo |
| Launched | 26 September 1939 |
| Commissioned | January 1940 |
| Fate | Seized by the German 9 April 1940 |
| Service record | |
| Operations | Opposing the German invasion of Norway |
| Victories | 1 warship (120 tons) damaged |
| Nazi Germany | |
| Name | Kamerun |
| Namesake | German Kamerun |
| Acquired | 9 April 1940 |
| Fate | Handed over to the German Mine Sweeping Administration after VE Day |
| Service record | |
| Operations | |
| Norway | |
| Name | Rauma |
| Acquired | May 1945 |
| Commissioned | 1947 |
| Decommissioned | 21 August 1959 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1963 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Class & type | Otra class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 355 tons |
| Length | 51 m (167.32 ft) |
| Beam | 7 m (22.97 ft) |
| Draft | 1.8 m (5.91 ft) |
| Propulsion | Two 900 hp Triple expansion steam engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Range | 1,400 nautical miles (2,592.80 km) at 9 knots (16.67 km/h) |
| Complement | 25 men |
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| General characteristics after German rebuild | |
| Class & type | Vorpostenboot and minelayer |
| Displacement | 355 tons |
| Length | 51 m (167.32 ft) |
| Beam | 7 m (22.97 ft) |
| Draft | 1.8 m (5.91 ft) |
| Propulsion | Two 900 hp Triple expansion steam engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Range | 1,400 nautical miles (2,592.80 km) at 9 knots (16.67 km/h) |
| Complement | 25 men |
| Armament |
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| General characteristics after 1949 Norwegian rebuild | |
| Class & type | Otra class minelayer training ship |
| Displacement | 355 tons |
| Length | 51 m (167.32 ft) |
| Beam | 7 m (22.97 ft) |
| Draft | 1.8 m (5.91 ft) |
| Propulsion | Two 900 hp Triple expansion steam engines, two shafts |
| Speed | 15 knots (27.78 km/h) |
| Range | 1,400 nautical miles (2,592.80 km) at 9 knots (16.67 km/h) |
| Complement | 25 men |
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HNoMS Rauma was an Otra-class minesweeper built in 1939 for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Captured by the Germans during the 1940 invasion of Norway and renamed Kamerun, she was returned to the Norwegians after the end of the Second World War and recommissioned in 1947. Rauma remained in service until being sold for scrapping in 1963.