User:WegianWarrior/Original articles

This is a list of all the articles I've started so far - or at least the ones I remember starting. For the most part, it's either things that interest me, or links that ended up in red. The few articles I've brought up to features status are in bold.

The 'teaser' under each link is the first few lines from the lead at the time I wrote it. Be aware that the articles may have changed significantly later on.

Score so far
So far, I've created
 * 69 original articles
 * 6 new templates.

Canons, rifles and suchlike

 * Kammerlader
 * The Kammerlader, or chamber loader, was the first Norwegian breechloaders, and among the very first breachloaders adopted for use in an armed force anywhere in the world


 * Remington M1867
 * The Remington rolling block M1867 was the first truly modern rifle to be adopted by the Norwegian Army


 * Krag-Petersson
 * The Krag-Petersson rifle was the first repeating rifle adopted by the armed forces of Norway, and one of the first repeating arms adopted anywhere in the world. It has been described as "the rifle everybody has heard about, but hardly anybody has ever seen".


 * Jarmann M1884
 * The Norwegian Jarmann M1884 was among the first bolt action repeating rifles to be adopted in the Western world. Its adoption, and subsequent modifications, turned the Norwegian Army from a fighting force armed with single shot black powder weapons, into a force armed with modern, repeating weapons fireing smokeless ammunition.


 * Heavy machine gun
 * A heavy machine gun refers to either a larger caliber high-power machine gun or one of smaller medium caliber ('rifle caliber') but meant for prolonged firing from heavy mounts, less mobile, or static positions (or some combination of the two). The latter meaning is generally though of as a older meaning, and tbe former as a modern, but both weapon types have history extending back to the 1800s. Furthermore, heavier smaller caliber weapons continue to be used up to the present


 * Fergurson rifle
 * The Ferguson rifle was most likely the first breech loading rifle to be adopted by any organised military force.


 * Hall rifle
 * The Hall rifle is an early breech loading rifle designed by Captain J. H. Hall and patended on May 21st 1811.


 * 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun
 * The 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun was designed and manufactured in Norway in the early to mid 1920s. It was an uninspired design, but it did boost the anti aircraft capacity in Norway significantly when adopted.


 * 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun
 * The 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun was designed and manufactured in Norway in the 1930s. The mount was an unusual design, having a platform with three outriggers instead of the usual four. Its main use was for positional air defense of important cities and installations.

Coastal battleships

 * Tordenskjold class battleships
 * The Tordenskjold class of costal battleships was ordered by Norway as part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905, the two ships in the class (Tordenskjold and Harald Haarfagre) remained the backbone (alongside the slightly newer Eidsvold class) of the Royal Norwegian Navy until they were considered 'unfit for war' in the mid 1930's.
 * Someone translated this to japanese! How cool is that?


 * HNoMS Tordenskjold
 * The HNoMS Tordenskjold, known localy as KNM Tordenskjold or Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian costal battleship. She, her sistership Harald Haarfagre and the slightly newer Eidsvold class was built as as part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.


 * HNoMS Harald Haarfagre
 * The HNoMS Harlad Haarfagre, known localy as KNM Harald Haarfagre or Panserskipet Harald Haarfagre, was a Norwegian costal battleship. She, her sistership Tordenskjold and the slightly newer Eidsvold class was built as as part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905.


 * Eidsvold class battleships
 * The Eidsvold class was a class of costal defence battleships (also refered to as costal defence cruisers), two of which where built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1899 by Armstrong Whitworth.
 * Someone translated this to japanese! How cool is that?


 * HNoMS Norge
 * HNoMS Norge, or KNM Norge in Norwegian, was a coastal defense cruiser of the Eidsvold class serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9th 1940.


 * HNoMS Eidsvold
 * HnoMS Eidsvold, or KNM Eidsvold in Norwegian, was a coastal defense cruiser and lead ship of her class, serving in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built in 1899, she was obsolete when sunk by German torpedoes in Narvik harbour on April 9th 1940.


 * Bjørgvin class battleships
 * The Bjørgvin class costal battleships was ordered by Norway in 1912 to supplement the older Eidsvold class and Tordenskjold class costal battleships. The two ships laid down was confiscated by the Royal Navy when WW1 broke out and classified as monitors.


 * HNoMS Bjørgvin
 * HNoMS Bjørgvin, which would have been known in Norway as either KNM Bjørgvin or as P/S Bjørgvin (where P/S stands for Panserskip - litt.: armoured ship) was the lead ship in her class. She and her sistership HNoMS Nidaros was ordered by Norway in 1912 to supplement the older Eidsvold class and Tordenskjold class costal battleships. The two ships laid down was confiscated by the Royal Navy when WW1 broke out and classified as monitors.


 * HNoMS Nidaros
 * HNoMS Nidaros, which would have been known in Norway as either KNM Nidaros or as P/S Nidaros (where P/S stands for Panserskip - litt.: armoured ship) was the second ship of the Bjørgvin class. She and her sistership HNoMS Bjørgvin was ordered by Norway in 1912 to supplement the older Eidsvold class and Tordenskjold class costal battleships. The two ships laid down was confiscated by the Royal Navy when WW1 broke out and classified as monitors.

Monitors

 * Skorpionen class
 * HNoMS Skorpionen
 * HNoMS Skorpionen (known localy as KNM Skorpionen) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1865, as the lead ship of a three ship strong class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.


 * HNoMS Mjølner
 * HNoMS Mjølner (known localy as KNM Mjølner) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scraped in 1908, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.


 * HNoMS Thrudvang
 * HNoMS Thrudvang (known localy as KNM Thrudvang) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1869, as part of the three ship strong Skorpionen class. She was scraped in 1918, well after her muzzle loading guns were outdated.


 * HNoMS Thor
 * The HNoMS Thor (known localy as KNM Thor) was a monitor built for the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1871. She was scrapped in 1918, long after her heavy guns was outdated. She could be considered an improved HNoMS Skorpionen class, with heavier armour and wider beam.

Destroyers

 * Draug class destroyer
 * The Draug class was the first class of drestroyers built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. They were fast vessels for their day, reaching speeds up to 26.5 knots. The Draug class vessels carried six Quick FIre guns to combat enemy torpedoboats, as well as three torpedotubes to attack larger vessels.
 * HNoMS Draug
 * The destroyer HNoMS Draug, known localy as Torpedojager Draug (litt.: torpedohunter), was the first destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and the lead ship of her class of three vessels. She was keept in service long after she was obsolete, and took part in the defence of Norway after the German invation in 1940.
 * HNoMS Troll
 * The destroyer HNoMS Troll, known localy as Torpedojager Troll (litt.: torpedohunter), was the second destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and was a Draug class destroyer. She was keept in service long after she was obsolete, and took part in the defence of Norway after the German invation in 1940.
 * HNoMS Garm
 * The destroyer HNoMS Garm, known localy as Torpedojager Garm (litt.: torpedohunter), was the third destroyer built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, and was a Draug class destroyer. Garm was built several years after hser two sisterships, but to the same plans. She was keept in service long after she was obsolete, and took part in the defence of Norway after the German invation in 1940.


 * Sleipner class destroyer
 * The Sleipner class was a class of six destroyers build for the Royal Norwegian Navy from 1936 until the German invation in 1940. The design was considered to be advanced for it's time, and it was the first class of vessels for the Norwegian Navy that used aluminum in the construction.

Gunboats
1. class gunboats:
 * HNoMS Sleipner (1878-1935)
 * The HNoMS Sleipner was a 1. class gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull.


 * HNoMS Ellida (1882-1925)
 * The HNoMS Ellida was a 1. class gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a reasonable heavy armament on a diminutive hull. A distinct feature of Ellida was that her funnel could be raised and lowered as needed.


 * HNoMS Viking (1891-1920)
 * The HNoMS Viking was a 1. class gunboat (built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull.


 * HNoMS Frithjof (1895-1928)
 * The HNoMS Frithjof was a 1. class gunboat (built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like all other Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a heavy armament on a diminutive hull.

2. class gunboats:
 * Vale class gunship
 * The Vale-class was a class of five gunships built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1874 and 1878. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large caliber muzzleloading gun for offencive purposes and several small, quick firing guns for self defence


 * HNoMS Vale (1874-1946)
 * The HNoMS Vale was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1874. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Brage, Nor, Uller and Vidar.


 * HNoMS Brage (1878-1945)
 * The HNoMS Brage was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1874. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Vale, Nor, Uller and Vidar.


 * HNoMS Nor (1878-1949)
 * The HNoMS Nor was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1878. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Vale, Brage, Uller and Vidar.


 * HNoMS Uller (1876-1940)
 * The HNoMS Uller was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1874. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Vale, Brage, Nor and Vidar.


 * HNoMS Vidar (1878-1947)
 * The HNoMS Vidar was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1878. She was one of a class of five gunboats - the other ships in the class was Vale, Brage, Nor and Uller.


 * Gor class gunship
 * The Gor-class was a class of two gunsboats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1884 and 1887. Small, nimble vessels, they were armed with a single large caliber gun for offencive purposes and several small, quick firing guns for self defence.


 * HNoMS Gor (1884-1945)
 * The HNoMS Gor was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1884. She was one of a class of two gunboats - the other ship in her class being Tyr. The Gor and Tyr can be seen as improveded Vale class gunboats


 * HNoMS Tyr (1887-1945)
 * The HNoMS Tyr was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1884. She was one of a class of two gunboats - the other ship in her class being Gor. The Gor and Tyr can be seen as improveded Vale class gunboats


 * HNoMS Æger (1894-1932)
 * The HNoMS Æger was a gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy at Horten Naval Yard in 1894. She was kept in the fleet until she was decommisioned in 1932.

Torpedoboats

 * HNoMS Lyn
 * HNoMS Lyn - or KNM Lyn in Norwegian - was the lead ship of a class of 27 torpedo boats built between 1892 and 1912. The name means Lightning. By todays standards, she was extremly lightly armed with just one 'quick fire' 37 mm cannon and a single, fixed torpedo tube, but in her time she did pack a punch. Later boats of her class carried heavier arnament. Lyn was later renamed Od, before she and most of her class was scrapped in 1920, long after they were obsolete.


 * HNoMS Rap
 * The naval ship HNoMS Rap is commonly acknowledged to have been the first torpedo boat in use in any navy in the world.


 * HNoMS Myg
 * HNoMS Myg, or KNM Myg in Norwegian, was a small torpedoboat for use in fjords and harbours. Apperantly not too successfull a design, because just one was built

Minelayers

 * HNoMS Frøya
 * The minelayer HNoMS Frøya was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the Naval yard in Horten during World War One. A fast ship for her time, she was keept in service until the German invation in 1940. At some point between her commision and 1940, a 76 mm gun was added to her armaments.


 * Glommen_class_minesweeper
 * The Glommen-class was a class of two diminutive minelayers built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War 1 at Akers Mekasniske Verksted in Oslo.


 * HNoMS Glommen (1916-1950)
 * The minelayer HNoMS Glommen was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War One, as the lead ship of a two ship class. Her sistership was Laugen.


 * HNoMS Laugen (1918-1950)
 * The minelayer HNoMS Laugen was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War One, as the lead ship of a two ship class. Her sistership was Glommen.


 * HNoMS Olav Tryggvason
 * The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy by the Naval yard in Horten in the early 1930's. She was considered a well armed and well balanced ship, with a engineplant consisting of both steamturbines and diesel engines.

Other

 * KNM Pol III
 * Pol III was a guard vessel of the Royal Norwegian Navy, used for patrolling the inlet of the Oslofjord in early april 1940. It was a small vessel, originaly a whale catcher, of just 214 tons. It is best known for the valiant, but ultimatly hopeless, attemt to turn back a whole German kampfgruppe during Operation Weserübung.

Ammunition

 * 6.5 x 55
 * 6.5 x 55, also known as 6.5 x 55 Krag, 6.5 x 55 Mauser and 6.5 x 55 Scan among others, was developed by a Norwegian-Swedish committee in 1891 for use in the new rifles then under consideration in the two nations


 * .30-40 Krag
 * The .30-40 Krag was a round of ammunition developed in the early 1890s to provide the US armed forces with a new, powerfull round to fire from the rifle it was going to select in the 1892 trials.


 * 10.15 x 61R
 * The 10.15 x 61R cartridge was developed for use in the Norwegian Jarmann rifle. It is a rimmed, centerfire cartridge, and was intially loaded with blackpowder and a lead bullet wrapped in paper. Later cartridges was loaded with smokeless powder and had a lead bullet coated in steel.


 * 12.17 x 44 mm
 * The 12.17x44 mm rimfire round was developed by a joint Swedish-Norwegian committee in 1867. The goal was to create a round of ammunition that would not only work in the new rifle then under consideration (this ended up as the Remington M1867), but also would be suitable to use in old, converted kammerlader rifles.


 * Stripper clip
 * Stripper clip is a common name for a device that holds several rounds of ammunition together in a single unit for easier loading.

Odds and ends

 * Rolling block
 * A rolling block is a form of firearm action where the sealing of the breech is done with a specially shaped breechblock able to rotate on a pin.


 * Peabody action
 * The Peabody action was an early form of breechloading firearm action, where the heavy breechblock tilt downwards across a bolt mounted in the rear of the breechblock, operated by a lever under the rifle.


 * Landmark conversion
 * The Landmark conversion refers to a modification of the Norwegian kammerlader rifles to allow them to fire rim fire ammunition, as opposed to being caplock weapons


 * Lund conversion
 * The Lund convertion is a modification allowing the Norwegian kammerlader rifles to fire rim fire ammunition. It was the prefered modification of the Royal Norwegian Navy.


 * Crause
 * Crause was a weapons manufacturer located in Herzberg, Germany, operating in the first half of the 1800s.


 * Francotte
 * Francotte is a weapons manufacturer in Liège, Belgium. It can be traced back to 1805, and is still in operation today.


 * Iron armour
 * The earliest material avilable in able quantities for armouring ships was iron, wrought or cast. The use of iron gave rise to the term ironclad as a references to a ship 'clad' in iron.

Not really weapon related

 * Contiki
 * Contiki is a small open source, yet fully featured, operating system developed for use on a number of smallish systems ranging from 8-bit computers to embedded microcontrollers. Despite providing multitasking and a built-in TCP/IP stack, it only requires a few kilobytes of code and a few hundred bytes of RAM. A fully fledged system complete with a graphical user interface (GUI) will require about 30 kilobytes of code memory.


 * Swedish Rite
 * The Swedish Rite is a variation of Freemasonry that is worked in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. A slight variation is common in parts of Germany under the Grosse Landesloge der Freimaurer von Deutschland.

Biographies
A lot of these are stubs, and needs fleshing out...
 * Erik Jørgensen
 * Erik Jørgensen (17 May 1848 – 1896) was a Norwegian master gunsmith, well known for his cooperation with Ole Herman Johannes Krag in developing the successful Krag-Jørgensen rifle.


 * Axel Petersson
 * Axel Petersson was a Swedish engineer who may be best known for giving Ole Herman Johannes Krag some helpfull aid with the laters rifle designs.


 * Ole Herman Johannes Krag
 * Ole Herman Johannes Krag (1837 – 1916) was a Norwegian gun designer. He designed a wide range of firearms during his lifetime, but only two - the Krag-Petersson and the Krag-Jørgensen - were adopted by any armed forces


 * Jacob Smith Jarmann
 * Jacob Smith Jarmann (1816-1894) was a Norwegian firearms designer.


 * Josef Alm
 * Josef Alm (1889–1957) was a Swedish weapon historian. He is most known - at least in Norway - for repeating and spreading a false rumour that there was a significant difference between the 6.5x55 ammunition used in Norway and Sweden, allthought the ammunition in reality is interchangeable.