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HNoMS Otto Sverdrup (F312)
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Otto Sverdrup in 2009
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Name: Otto Sverdrup
Namesake: Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup
Ordered: 23 June 2000
Builder: Navantia, Ferrol
Laid down: 25 May 2005
Launched: 28 April 2006
Commissioned: 30 April 2008
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class & type: Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate
Displacement: 5,290 tons
Length: 134 m (439.63 ft)
Beam: 16.8 m (55.12 ft)
Draft: 7.6 m (24.93 ft)
Propulsion:
  • Combined diesel and gas (CODAG)
  • Two BAZAN BRAVO 12V 4.5 MW diesel engines for cruising
  • One GE LM2500 21.5 MW gas turbine for high speed running
  • MAAG gearboxes
  • two shafts driving controllable pitch propellers
  • Bow Thruster Retractable (Electric)1 MW Brunvoll
  • Diesel Generators 4 × MTU 396 Serie 12V 1250 KVA
Speed: 27 knots (50.00 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334.00 km)
Complement:
  • 120 men, accommodations for 146
  • Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1F 3-D multifunction radar
  • Reutech RSR 210N air/sea surveillance radar
  • Sagem Vigy 20 Electro Optical Director
  • MRS 2000 hull mounted sonar
  • Captas MK II V1 active/passive towed sonar
  • 2 × Mark 82 fire-control radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Terma DL-12T decoy launcher, Loki torpedo countermeasure
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × NH90 helicopter

HNoMS Otto Sverdrup is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Construction and commissioning[]

Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Otto Sverdrup was the third of the Fridtjof Nansen class to be launched and then commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy.[1]

Service[]

In November 2017 Otto Sverdrup visited London's West India Dock with the Portuguese frigate Francisco de Almeida. Both ships were part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 at the time.[2]

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