Skule Valentin Storheill,
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Warship Commands listed for Skule Valentin Storheill,
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HNoMS St Albans (I 15) | Destroyer | 27 Jul 1941 | 6 Jun 1943 | |
| HNoMS Stord (G 26) | Kapt.ltn | Destroyer | 26 Aug 1943 | 25 Jun 1944 |
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Destroyer HNoMS St Albans (I 15)
3 Aug 1941
The German submarine U-401 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 50º27'N, 19º50'W, by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Wanderer (Cdr. A.F.St.G. Orpen, RN), the Norwegian destroyer St. Albans (Lt.Cdr. S. Storheill) and the British corvette HMS Hydrangea (Lt. J.E. Woolfendon, RNR).
2 May 1942
During escort of a Murmansk convoy HNoMS St Albans detected and sank a submarine belived to be a German uboat. The submarine however was the Polish submarine ORP Jastrzab P 551 which had by mistake manouvred herself into the convoy. HNoMS St Albans picked up the survivors and transported them to Murmansk.
Destroyer HNoMS Stord (G 26)
26 Dec 1943
One of the group of destroyers (including the "S" class destroyers Saumarez, Savage and Scorpion) which finished off the Scharnhorst by torpedo fire. Stord fired 8 torpedos at the Scharnhorst. It appeared to many of Stord's crew and other observers that her captain (Lieut. Cmndr Skule Storheill was intending to ram the Scharnhorst as he took the vessel in to within about 400 yards of his target before firing the torpedos. Storheill was awarded a bar to the DSC for the Stord's part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst.
(Details in John Winton's book "The Death of the Scharnhorst; Cassell 2000)