HNoMS Stord was an S-class

S and T class destroyer

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 destroyer

Destroyer

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 that served with the Royal Norwegian Navy

Royal Norwegian Navy

The Royal Norwegian Navy is the branch of the Norwegian Defence Force responsible for naval operations. , the RNoN consists of approximately 3,700 personnel and 70 vessels, including 5 heavy frigates, 6 submarines, 14 patrol boats, 4 minesweepers, 4 minehunters, 1 mine detection vessel, 4 support...

 during and after World War II

World War II

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. She was laid down as HMS Success, but transferred to the Norwegians before completion. She was renamed HNoMS Stord when commissioned into the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy on 26 August 1943 under the command of Lt.-Cdr. Skule Storheill

Skule Storheill

Skule Valentin Storheill was a Norwegian naval officer who reached prominence in World War II while serving in Norwegian warships with the Royal Navy, and received Norway's leading military decoration, the War Cross with Sword.In June 1940 as a Lieutenant he was the Norwegian liaison officer on...

.

Stord served in the Home Fleet in the 23rd Destroyer Flotilla. She played an important role in the sinking of the German

Nazi Germany

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 battleship Scharnhorst

German battleship Scharnhorst

Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, alternatively described as a battleship and battlecruiser, of the German Kriegsmarine. She was the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. The ship was built at the Kriegsmarinewerft dockyard in Wilhelmshaven; she was laid down on 15...

. After the battle, Admiral Fraser sent the following message to the Admiralty: "... Please convey to the C-in-C Norwegian Navy. Stord played a very daring role in the fight and I am very proud of her...". In an interview in The Evening News on 5 February 1944 the commanding officer of HMS Duke of York said: "... the Norwegian destroyer Stord carried out the most daring attack of the whole action...". In 1944 she also took part in the Normandy landings

Operation Neptune

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. Stord was officially purchased from the UK government in 1946 and scrapped in Belgium

Belgium

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in 1959.

A model of Stord (approximately 300:1) can be seen in the D-Day museum at Arromanche, Normandy.

Reference: Evig Heder by Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)
Evig Heder (Eternal Honor)