SS Nordnorge

Two steamships have borne the name Nordnorge, after the Norwegian name for Northern Norway:

SS Nordnorge (1883) was a 339-ton passenger/cargo ship completed as Wisingsö in 1883, by Motala Verkstad, Sweden. Torpedoed and sunk off Honningsvåg, Norway, on 24 March 1944.[1]
SS Nordnorge (1923) was a 991-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 12 September 1923, by Trondhjems mekaniske Værksted in Trondheim, Norway. Shelled and sunk by warships off Hemnesberget on 10 May 1940.

See also

MS Nordnorge

References

"Norwegian Homefleet - WW II, Ships starting with N". Warsailors. Retrieved 17 September 2012.

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