| Navy | The Royal Norwegian Navy |
| Type | Escort destroyer |
| Class | Hunt (Type II) |
| Pennant | L 03 |
| Built by | Cammell Laird Shipyard (Birkenhead, U.K.) |
| Ordered | 20 Dec 1939 |
| Laid down | 15 May 1940 |
| Launched | 17 Mar 1941 |
| Commissioned | 16 Nov 1944 |
| End service | |
| History | Scrapped in 1965. |
| Former name | HMS Badsworth |
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Notable events involving Arendal include:
11 May 1945
Operation Kingdom.
The object of this operation was to transport the Norwegian Crown Prince, together with Norwegian Government officials and military commanders and also members of the Allied Shaef mission (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force).
For this operation the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire (Capt. G.M.B. Langley, OBE, RN), fast minelayers HMS Apollo (Capt. J.A. Grindle, CBE, RN), HMS Ariadne (Capt. F.B. Lloyd, OBE, RN), destroyers HMCS Iroquois (Capt. K.F. Adams, RCN), HMS Savage (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Malins, DSO, DSC and Bar, RN), HMS Campbell (Lt. B.W. Meaden, RN), escort destroyer HNoMS Arendal departed Rosyth around 1630B/11. They arrived at Oslo in the afternoon of the 13th.
The were swept in by the minesweepers HMS Catherine (Cdr. Kenneth Hillam Fraser, RN), 6541 HMS Cynthia (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.L. Chatwin, RNVR), HMS Elfreda (T/A/Lt.Cdr. L. Jolly, RNVR), HMS Grecian (T/A/Cdr. C.R. Fraser, DSC and Bar, RNR) and HMS Gazelle (Lt.Cdr. J.D. Sutcliffe, RN), HMS Maenad (Cdr. C.E. Duggan, RD, RNR), HMS Steadfast (T/A/Lt. A.H. Hall, RNVR) and HMS Tattoo (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) F.G. Rogers, RD, RNR) which had come from Copenhagen. (1)
Sources
- ADM 53/121219 + ADM 199/1440
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.