By modern standards, she was extremely lightly armed with just one 'quick fire' 37 mm cannon and a single, fixed torpedo tube,[1] but in her time she did pack a punch.

Lyn was later renamed Od, before she and most of her class were scrapped in 1920, long after they were obsolete.

Small, nimble and fast craft for their time, the class provided much of the backbone for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the time leading up to Norwegian independence in 1905, and also during World War I.

Over the 30 years the class was built, the size increased steadily, as well as the armament.

The last boats in the class had a displacement almost twice that of Lyn, and two fixed torpedo tubes instead of just one.