HNoMS Helge Ingstad (F313)

Helge Ingstad in 2010
History
Norway
Name: Helge Ingstad
Namesake: Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad
Ordered: 23 June 2000
Builder: Navantia, Ferrol
Laid down: 28 April 2006
Launched: 23 November 2007
Commissioned: 29 September 2009
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and 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:
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 Helge Ingstad is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Construction and commissioning

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

Service

From December 2013 to May 2014, Helge Ingstad was one of the escort ships for merchant vessels carrying chemical weapons from Syria to be destroyed.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Fregatt – Nansenklassen" (in Norwegian). Forsvaret. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  2. ↑ NTB (29 December 2013). ""Helge Ingstad" i posisjon utenfor Syria – Bergens Tidende". Bt.no. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  • "Fridtjof Nansen-class". forsvaret.no. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2018. - Royal Norwegian Navy's page on the Fridtjof Nansen class
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