Keeping Nidaros in service would affect personnel as well as fleet strength. Over two decades, the ship would require a succession of commanding officers, executive officers, and junior specialists. Those billets would change promotion paths across the small Norwegian Navy and might alter who commanded Eidsvold and Norge in 1940. The scenario keeps the historical captains for clarity, but Nidaros's commander remains unknowable. The Navy's patriotic, anti-collaboration culture makes active resistance the likely choice.
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How Nidaros would reshape Norway's officer pipeline
Keeping Nidaros in service creates an extra ladder of commands and promotions, so the ship's 1940 captain cannot simply be borrowed from the historical roster.