HNoMS Narvik (F304)

Norwegian navy frigate

59°25′47″N 10°28′47″E﻿ / ﻿59.429638°N 10.479761°E﻿ / 59.429638; 10.479761

Norwegian frigate Narvik (F304).

History
Norway
Name| Narvik
Ordered| 1960
Launched| 8 January 1965
Commissioned| 30 November 1966
Decommissioned| 1 August 2007
Identification| F304
Fate| transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten
General characteristics
Class & type| Oslo-class frigate
Displacement|

* 1,450 long tons (1,473 t) standard
* 1,745 long tons (1,773 t) full load

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 &
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

Electronic warfare
& decoys| 4 × Mark 36 SRBOC chaff launchers ESM: AR 700 suite
Armament|

* 2 × 3 in (76 mm) cannon
* 1 × Bofors 40mm/70 anti-aircraft gun
* 2 × 20 mm Rheinmetall anti-aircraft guns
* 2 × 12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns
* 6 × Penguin SSMs (usually not mounted)
* 1 × 8-cell Raytheon RIM-7M Sea Sparrow Mk 29 SAM system
* 6 × Kongsberg Terne ASW rocket-thrown depth charges
* 2 × triple 324 mm (12.8 in) Mark 32 torpedo tubes (Sting Ray torpedoes)

HNoMS Narvik (pennant number F304) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Narvik, the last active ship of the class, was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten in 2007.[1]

## References

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1. ^ Forsvarsnett, Narvik to be museum ship (in Norwegian) Archived September 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

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