Norwegian frigate Stavanger (F303).
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History |
Norway |
Name | Stavanger |
Ordered | 1960 |
Builder | Navy Main Yard, Karljohansvern, Horten, Norway |
Launched | 4 February 1966 |
Commissioned | 8 December 1967 |
Decommissioned | June 1998 |
Identification | F303 |
Fate | Expended as a target 2001 |
General characteristics |
Class and type | Oslo-class frigate |
Displacement |
- 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) standard
- 1,745 long tons (1,773 t) full load
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Length | 96.6 m (316 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 11.2 m (36 ft 9 in) |
Draft | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion | Twin steam boilers, one high pressure and one low pressure steam turbine, 20,000 hp (14,914 kW) |
Speed | 25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles at 15 knots (8,300 km at 28 km/h) |
Complement | 120 (129 max) officers and men |
Sensors and processing systems |
- Siemens/Plessey AWS-9 long range air search radar
- Racal DeccaTM 1226 surface search radar in I band
- Kongsberg MSI-90(U) tracking and fire control system
- Raytheon Mk 95; I/J-band search and track radar for Sea Sparrow
- Medium frequency Thomson-CSF Sintra/Simrad TSM 2633 combined hull and VDS active sonar
- High frequency Terne III active sonar
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Electronic warfare & decoys | 4 × Mark 36 SRBOC chaff launchers ESM: AR 700 suite |
Armament | |
HNoMS Stavanger (pennant number F303) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.[1] Her namesake comes from the Norwegian city of Stavanger.[1]
Stavanger was decommissioned in 1998.[1] She was later used for target practice and sunk in 2001 by a single DM2A3 torpedo launched from the Ula-class submarine Utstein (pennant number S302).[1]
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