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FALSTER minelayers (1963 - 1964)


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Møen 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Falster N80 169 Nakskov Vaerft 7.4.1962 19.9.1962 7.11.1963 stricken 1.2000
Fyen N81 235 Frederikshavn Vaerft 12.4.1962 3.10.1962 18.9.1963 stricken 10.2003
Møen N82 236 Frederikshavn Vaerft 4.10.1962 5.3.1963 29.4.1964 stricken 10.2004
Sjælland N83 170 Nakskov Vaerft 17.1.1963 14.6.1963 7.7.1964 stricken 1.2000


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1800

Displacement full, t1900
Length, m

72.5 pp 77.0 oa

Breadth, m

12.8

Draught, m

4.00

No of shafts2
Machinery

2 General Motors 16-56703 diesels

Power, h. p.

4800

Max speed, kts

17

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 400 mines

Electronic equipmentCWS-2, NWS-1, NWS-2, M-46 radars
Complement120


Standard scale images


<i>Falster</i> 1970
Falster 1970


Graphics


<i>Møen </i>1980
Møen 1980
<i>Møen </i>2003 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Møen 2003 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

First two ordered 1960, remainder 1962. Of a special NATO design, 'Scandinavian' type of minelayer, Fyen also acted as a training ship for midshipmen, and Sjælland as a depot ship for submarines and torpedo-boats.

Modernizations

1986, all: + 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk 24

1993-94, all: - 1 x 2 - 76/50 (aft), NWS-1 radar; + Terma Pilot radar, Cutlass B-1 ECM suite

Naval service

No significant events.