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HNoMS Nasty

Norwegian naval ship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ24088440 ↗
Source-derived summary

HNoMS Nasty was a fast attack craft of the Royal Norwegian Navy, built as a private venture by Westermoen Båtbyggeri of Mandal, Norway. Designed by Jan Herman Linge she was an experimental craft, of wooden hull construction, launched in 1958.

Nasty served with the Royal Norwegian Navy and was the prototype for the navies Tjeld class patrol boats. Boats to Nasty's design were also built for the US and German navies.

Nasty was stricken in 1967.

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“HNoMS Nasty” enters the record as norwegian naval ship. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what HNoMS, Nasty and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around HNoMS, Nasty and Norwegian.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q24088440. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “HNoMS Nasty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.