Norske Løve
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Eleven ships in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy have been named Norske Løve. The name translates as Norwegian Lion and is a reference to the Coat of Arms of Norway
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The merchant ship Nordische Löwe
(-1707) is also often referred to as Norske Løve.
Coat of arms of Norway
The coat of arms of Norway is a crowned, golden lion rampant holding an axe with an argent blade, on a crowned, triangular and red escutcheon. Its elements originate from personal insignias for the royal house in the High Middle Ages, thus being among the oldest in Europe...
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The merchant ship Nordische Löwe
Nordische Löwe
Nordische Löwe, also known as Norske Løve and as Norska Løva, was a ship with 36 cannons, owned by the Danish East India Company.-Sinking:...
(-1707) is also often referred to as Norske Løve.
Ships
- Norske Løve (1634–1653)
- Norske Løve (1654–1666)
- Norske Løve (1665–1679)
- Norske Løve (1680–1715)
- Norske Løve (1735–1764)
- Norske Løve (1765–1798)
Fortresses
- Norske LøveNorske Løve FortressNorske Løve is the name of a 19th century fortress built from 1852 to 1859 to protect Karljohansvern naval station in Horten in Norway. Its name is a reference to the Coat of Arms of Norway. The fort is still a military area, but is today only used as an administration building for the Norwegian...
, a 19th century fortress in HortenHortenis a town and municipality in Vestfold county, Norway—located along the Oslofjord. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Horten. The municipality also includes the villages of Borre, Åsgårdstrand, Skoppum, and Nykirke....
, NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. - Norske Løve, a battery built in 1750 outside StavernStavernStavern is a small Norwegian town located in the municipality of Larvik, south of the city of Larvik in Vestfold.The port and naval base of Stavern was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . Even though it was an important port it was first given its status as a town July 1, 1942...
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