Oslo class
| ' Oslo' class | |
|---|---|
|
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| Overview | |
| Type | frigate |
| units | 5 |
| Shipyard |
Navy main shipyard Karljohansvern , Horten |
| Order | 1960 |
| Keel laying | January 1964 to February 1966 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | January 1966 to December 1967 |
| Decommissioning | June 1998 to August 2007 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
1,735 tons, 2,100 tons maximum |
| length |
96.6 meters |
| width |
11.2 meters |
| Draft |
5.5 meters |
| crew |
120 to 129 men |
| drive |
2 steam boilers, one high pressure and one low pressure steam turbine, power: 4,914 kW / 20,000 PS |
| speed |
Top speed> 25 kn |
| Range |
3900 Sm at 15 kn |
| Armament |
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| radar |
Siemens / Plessey AWS-9 |
| sonar |
Medium frequency Thomson-CSF (today Thales Group ) Sintra / Simrad TSM 2633 combined active trunk and tow sonar, high-frequency active sonar Terne III |
The Oslo class was a class of five frigates of the Norwegian Navy , which the escort destroyers of Dealey class of the US Navy based. However, the bow had to be redesigned to cope better with the harsh North Sea conditions, and some weapon and electronic systems were replaced with those from European manufacturers.
construction
All ships were built in the main shipyard of the Navy in Horten between 1964 and 1966. The construction of the ships was part of an extensive fleet armament program, which was decided by the Norwegian government in 1960. Half of the cost of the program was funded by the US through the Mutual Defense Assistance Program (MDAP). This was a program operated by the USA between 1943 and 1967, and at the time of the Norwegian naval armament program, the aim was to militarily strengthen states that were directly threatened by the Soviet Union. This program was of existential importance for Norway, because lucrative oil and gas production did not exist back then.
modernization
In the late 1970s, all five ships of the class received new armament. During the arming previously consisted almost exclusively of barrel weapons, the ships were now with Penguin - anti-ship missiles , Sea Sparrow -Flugabwehrraketen and Stingray torpedoes equipped. In the 1980s, the electronics were also modernized.
After the Oslo ran aground in January 1994 due to an engine failure in heavy seas and then sank while being towed, it was decided to modernize the remaining four units. In particular, the hulls were reinforced, which increased the displacement of the ships by about 200 tons.
units
Five Oslo-class ships were built. Like all ships in the Norwegian Navy since 1946, they had the prefix KNM , which stands for Kongelig Norske Marine , in German this means Royal Norwegian Navy . In English-speaking KNM is often by HNoMS replaced, for His Norwegian Majesty's Ship stands and translates His Norwegian Majesty Ship means. The ships are all named after major cities in Norway, with the exception of Narvik being exclusively major cities.
| Surname | Hull number | Launch | Commissioning | Decommissioning | Whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KNM Oslo | F300 | 17th January 1964 | January 29, 1966 | sunk on January 25, 1994 | |
| KNM mountains | F301 | August 23, 1965 | June 22, 1967 | August 3, 2005 | |
| KNM Trondheim | F302 | 4th September 1964 | June 2, 1966 | June 2006 | |
| KNM Stavanger | F303 | 4th February 1966 | December 8, 1967 | June 1998 | |
| KNM Narvik | F304 | January 8, 1965 | November 30, 1966 | August 1, 2007 |
The first ship of the class, the Oslo , hit the rocky bottom on January 24, 1994 at the Insel Store Marstein after an engine failure. When she was towed the following day, the Oslo sank outside Steinneset in the Krossfjord .
The Stavanger was decommissioned in 1998 and used as a target ship. In 2001 she was sunk by a single torpedo of the German type DM2A3 from the Ula-class submarine KNM Utstein (S-302) . In August 2005, the mountains were finally taken out of service.
On March 17, 2006 at 8:10 p.m. CET , the Trondheim ran aground outside the liner islands in the province of Sør-Trøndelag . The 121-man crew survived the incident without injuries and at 8:30 p.m. the ship was free again. However, the hull had a leak and two of the watertight compartments were flooded with water. The frigate was then towed into the port of Bergen by a unit of the Norwegian Coast Guard .
With the arrival of the new Fridtjof Nansen class ships from 2006 and the Trondheim accident , this ship was decommissioned and not repaired in the same year. The last unit to be retired was the Narvik in August 2007 . In contrast to the other ships, however , the Narvik is to be preserved and for this purpose it was placed in the Naval Museum in Horten .
Web links
- Kysteskadren Fregattvåpenet ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Forsvarsnett ( Norwegian )
- KNM Narvik ( Norwegian )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kristoffer Thoner: Den siste før de nye ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Forsvarsnett, June 11, 2007 ( Norwegian ).
- ↑ Utstein sinks Stavanger , video at Youtube.com
- ^ Christer S. Johnsen, Ragnhild H. Simenstad: KNM Trondheim blir liggende . Address alerts, March 17, 2006 ( Norwegian ).
- ^ Egil Ingebrigtsen: Godt redningsarbeid ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Forsvarsnett, March 20, 2006 ( Norwegian ).
- ^ Fregatter i Oslo-klassen ( Memento of October 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), Forsvarsnett ( Norwegian ).
- ↑ Jonas Almås Parman: Museum ship Narvik - KNM Narvik blir museum ( Memento of 30 September 2007 at the Internet Archive ), Forsvarsnett, April 20, 2006 ( Norwegian )