Sleipner-class corvette

Class overview
Name: Sleipner class
Operators:  Royal Norwegian Navy
Built: 1963–1965
In commission: 1965–1992
Planned: 5
Completed: 2
Scrapped: 1
General characteristics [1]
Type: Corvette
Displacement:
  • 600 long tons (610 t) standard
  • 790 long tons (803 t) full load
Length: 69.33 m (227 ft 6 in)
Beam: 7.90 m (25 ft 11 in)
Draught: 2.50 m (8 ft 2 in)
Propulsion: 4 × MTU diesels totalling 9,000 bhp (6,711 kW)
Speed: 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 61
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Decca TM 1226 surface search radar
  • Decca 202 navigation radar
  • Phillips TVT-300 optronic fire control systems
  • Thomson-CSF Spheron hull sonar
Armament:

The Sleipner class was a series of corvettes ordered as part of the Royal Norwegian Navy's 1960 fleet plan.[1] It was intended to build five ships of the class, but because of economic problems only two were built; Sleipner and Æger.[2]

Sleipner was built by Nylands Mekaniske Verksted, Oslo, and Æger by Aker Mekaniske Verksted, Oslo, and handed over to the Royal Norwegian Navy between 1965–1967.[3] The ships were armed with an American 3 in (76.2 mm) gun forward and a Bofors 40 mm gun aft, with a Terne III anti-submarine rocket launcher ahead of the 40 mm gun. The ships were fitted with American SQS-36 sonar.[2]

The ships had their anti-submarine capabilities improved in 1972, when they were fitted with Mark 32 anti-submarine torpedo tubes.[2] The ships were mainly used as training ships in the 1980s, although they did retain a wartime role as coastal escorts.[2][4] They were again modernised between 1988 and 1989, with new sonar and gun fire control systems fitted.[1] They were decommissioned in 1993.[2]

Ship list

Sleipner class
# Name Laid down[3] Launched[3] Commissioned[3] Decommissioned[2]
F 310
(originally P 950)		 Sleipner 1963 9 November 1963 29 April 1965 1993
F 311
(originally P 951)		 Æger 1964 24 September 1965 31 March 1967 1993

See also

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Prézelin and Baker 1990, p. 403.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gardiner and Chumbley 1995, p. 293.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Moore 1985, p. 370.
  4. ↑ Grove 1990, p. 107.

References

  • Gardiner, Roger and Stephen Chumbley. Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press, 1995. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
  • Grove, Eric J. NATO Major Warships - Europe. London: Tri-Service Press, 1990. ISBN 1-85400-006-3.
  • Moore, John. Jane's Fighting Ships 1985–86. London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1985. ISBN 978-0-7106-0814-7.
  • Prézelin, Bernard and A.D. Baker. The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1990/91. Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 1990. ISBN 0-87021-250-8.


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