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* Royal Norwegian Air Force
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As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).
* HNoMS King Haakon VII, a Royal Norwegian Navy escort ship in commission from 1942 to 1951
* HNoMS Haakon VII ( A537 ), a Royal Norwegian Navy training ship in commission from 1958 to 1974
While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.
Transport to the island is provided by C-130 Hercules military transport planes operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force that land at Jan Mayensfield's gravel runway.
Today, a number of orders of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Not satisfied with the tubular magazine of the Jarmann rifle and his earlier Krag-Petersson rifle ( adopted by the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1876 ), he enlisted the help of master gunsmith Erik Jørgensen.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ; the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ; the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize in Literature ; and the Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded by a Swedish organisation but by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.
The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.
Amundsen and Oskar Omdal, of the Royal Norwegian Navy, attempted to fly from Wainwright, Alaska, to Spitsbergen across the North Pole.
In 2004 and in late August 2009 unsuccessful searches were made by the Royal Norwegian Navy for the wreckage of Amundsen's plane, using the unmanned submarine Hugin 1000.
* The Royal Norwegian Navy is building a class of Aegis frigates, the second of which, is the HNoMS Roald Amundsen ( completed 2006 )
During the Second World War, the Royal Navy deployed an armed merchant vessel to patrol South Georgian and Antarctic waters against German raiders, along with two four-inch shore guns ( still present ) protecting Cumberland Bay and Stromness Bay, manned by volunteers from among the Norwegian whalers.
* HNoMS Sleipner, three different warships in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1877 and 1992
The Royal Norwegian Navy's HNoMS Rap — the name meaning ' fast '— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, but was not equipped with self-propelled torpedoes until 1879.
For example the Royal Norwegian Navy Sleipner-class destroyers were in fact of a torpedo boat size, while the Italian Spica-class torpedo boat were closer in size to a destroyer escort.
The University of Oslo (), formerly The Royal Frederick University (), is the oldest and largest university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo.
** April 12, 1814 – The Royal Norwegian Navy is re-established.
* April 12 – The Royal Norwegian Navy is re-established.
* The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum is founded.
* Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav ( 1951 ) and with Star, ( 1970 ), Grand Cross ( 1987 )

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* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.
He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy
* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.
* HMS Adder, any of seven ships of the Royal Navy
* HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy
*, a British Royal Navy ship.
* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.
* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.
In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.
Category: Royal Danish Navy
*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

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