A/S Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek Verksted was a shipyard

Shipyard

Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships. These can be yachts, military vessels, cruise liners or other cargo or passenger ships. Dockyards are sometimes more associated with maintenance and basing activities than shipyards, which are sometimes associated more with initial...

 located in Mandal, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, who specialized in high speed craft. Under the leadership of Toralf Westermoen

Toralf Westermoen

Toralf Westermoen was a pioneer for the development of high speed craft in Norway. Westermoen was involved in the companies Båtservice Verft, Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek...

 in the 1950s, the yard has produced a long range of high speed boat types, such as:

• The Tjeld class patrol boat
  Tjeld class patrol boat
  The Tjeld class were a class of fast patrol boats designed in Norway. They were used as torpedo boats in Norway where this type of vessel were called MTBs or motor torpedo boats . The class was also known as the Nasty class....
  
  , from 1957
• The Storm class patrol boat
  Storm class patrol boat
  The Storm class fast patrol boats were a class of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy.In Norwegian these boats were called missilkanonbåter meaning boats with missiles and guns. They were operated by the Coastal Combat Flotilla together with the MTBs, or Missile Torpedo Boats. None of...
  
  , from 1963

Jan Herman Linge

Jan Herman Linge

Jan Herman Linge was a Norwegian engineer and boat designer. He was the son of Martin Linge, known for his war effort in Kompani Linge.-Early life and career:Linge was born in Oslo in 1922...

, later famous as designer of many sailboats and anime

Anime

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, served as head engineer from 1949 to 1956, and was responsible for the design of the Tjeld class.

See also

• Westamarin
• Kværner Båtservice

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