HNoMS Otto Sverdrup (F312) | |
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HNoMS Otto Sverdrup.jpg Otto Sverdrup in 2009 | |
Career (Norway) | ![]() |
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 |
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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: |
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Speed: | 27 knots (50.00 km/h) |
Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,334.00 km) |
Complement: | |
Electronic warfare & decoys: | Terma DL-12T decoy launcher, Loki torpedo countermeasure |
Armament: |
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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]
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Category:F312 Otto Sverdrup (ship, 2006). |
- ↑ "Fregatt – Nansenklassen" (in Norwegian). Forsvaret. https://forsvaret.no/fakta/utstyr/Sjoe/Nansen-klasse-fregatt. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
- ↑ "Norwegian Navy ship HNoMS Otto Sverdrup". isleofdogslife. 29 November 2017. https://isleofdogslife.wordpress.com/tag/norwegian-navy-ship-hnoms-otto-sverdrup/. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
External links[]
- "Fridtjof Nansen-class". forsvaret.no. 28 June 2016. https://forsvaret.no/en/facts/equipment/fridtjof-nansen-class. Retrieved 23 April 2018. - Royal Norwegian Navy's page on the Fridtjof Nansen class
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