HNoMS Valkyrien, a frigate

Frigate

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 of the Royal Norwegian Navy

Royal Norwegian Navy

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 was purchased from the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

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 in 1956 and was named HNoMS Garm until 1965.

She was launched as the River-class

River class frigate

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 frigate HMCS Toronto

HMCS Toronto (K538)

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 with pennant number

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 K538 on 25 November 1943 at Lauzon, Quebec, Canada. She served in World War II

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 on anti-submarine operations in the North Atlantic. She was decommissioned from the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

 on 27 November 1945, then recommissioned by that navy as a Prestonian class frigate with pennant number 319 on 26 November 1953, and decommissioned again on 14 April 1956.

Sold to Norway

Norway

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 she was renamed Garm in 1956, then renamed Valkyrien in 1965 and served until 1977.

See also

• HNoMS Valkyrjen
  HNoMS Valkyrjen
  HNoMS Valkyrjen was a division's ship for the torpedo division of the Royal Norwegian Navy. She was built at F. Schichau shipyard in Elbing, Germany in 1896. The funds for the ship had been raised by the women of Norway and the ship was named Valkyrien in honour of them. She was also nicknamed The...
  
   (1896–1920)
• HNoMS Valkyrien (A535)