Education at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy
(RNoNA) has long traditions. In 1817 the “Kongelige Norske Søcadet-Institut”
(Royal Norwegian Sea Cadet Institute) was opened at the then main naval base at
Fredriksvern (Stavern), but its roots can be traced back to 1701 when the
“Søcadet-Akademiet” in Copenhagen was founded to educate naval officers for the
Danish-Norwegian fleet.
The main naval base and the Sea Cadet Institute
were transferred to Horten 1864, and the education of naval officers continued
here until 9 April 1940 when Norway was occupied by Germany. During World War 2
the Navy was reorganised and developed in Great Britain. A Naval Academy was
established in London in 1941, and cadets were educated there and near
Edinburgh during the war. After the war the RNoNA was temporarily placed in
Oslo, but it took 15 years before the Academy was established in its present
location in Wallemsviken, Laksevåg, just outside Bergen city centre, in 1960.