HNoMS Brand (1898)

Brand (left) with three sister ships in Kiel in 1900
History
Norway
Name	Brand
Namesake	An archaic spelling of the Norwegian word brann, meaning fire
Builder	The Royal Norwegian Navy Shipyard at Karljohansvern in Horten
Yard number	80
Launched	22 September 1898
Out of service	11 April 1940
Captured	by the German on 16 April 1940
Service record
Part of:	4th Torpedo Boat Division, 2nd Naval District (1939–1940)
Commanders:	Christian Blom (1900) Rolf von Krogh (1901 and 1905) Ivar Arne Midtland (1940)
Operations:	Opposing the German invasion of Norway (9 April 1940)
Nazi Germany
Name	Tarantel
Namesake	Lycosa tarantula
Acquired	16 April 1940
Fate	Returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in May 1945, then decommissioned and scrapped
Service record
Part of:	Hafenschutz flotille Bergen (-December 1940) 55th Vorpoosten flotille (December 1940 – May 1945)
Operations:	Norwegian Campaign (April–May 1940) German occupation of Norway (June 1940 – May 1945)
General characteristics
Class and type	1. class torpedo boat
Displacement	107 tons
Length	39.9 metres (130.91 ft)
Beam	4.9 metres (16.08 ft)
Draught	2.7 metres (8 ft 10.30 in)
Propulsion	1,100 indicated horsepower triple expansion steam engine
Speed	21 knots (38.89 km/h; 24.17 mph)
Range	900 nautical miles (1,666.80 km; 1,035.70 mi) at 12 knots (22.22 km/h; 13.81 mph) or 500 nautical miles (926.00 km; 575.39 mi) at 16 knots (29.63 km/h; 18.41 mph)
Complement	19 officers and men
Armament	2 × 37 mm QF guns 2 × 45 cm torpedo tubes Added by the Germans: 2 × machine guns 6 × depth charges

HNoMS Brand was a 1.-class torpedo boat constructed in 1898. She served the Royal Norwegian Navy for more than four decades, including neutrality protection duties during the First World War. Having once again been employed on neutrality protection duty at the outbreak of the Second World War, Brand was captured by the Germans during their invasion of Norway in April 1940.

After serving in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the Norwegian Campaign that followed the invasion, she was renamed Tarantel and employed as a Vorpostenboot in occupied Norway. Having survived the Second World War, Brand was returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in May 1945 and soon decommissioned and scrapped.