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ROYAL NORWEGIAN NAVY (NORWAY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

OSLO destroyers

British sister-ship Comet 1945

Name No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Oslo (ex-Crown) 1950- D303 Scotts, Greenock, UK 1/1944 19/12/1945 4/1947 stricken 1966
Bergen (ex-Cromwell, ex-Cretan) 1950- D304 Scotts, Greenock, UK 11/1943 6/8/1945 9/1946 stricken 1/1967
Trondheim (ex-Croziers) 1950- D305 Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK 10/1943 19/9/1944 11/1945 stricken 5/1967
Stavanger (ex-Crystal) 1950- D306 Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK 1/1944 12/2/1945 2/1946 stricken 1/1967

 

  

Displacement standard, t

1710 - 1730 nominal

Displacement full, t

2510 - 2535

Length, m

103.5 pp 110.6 oa

Breadth, m

10.9

Draught, m

4.34 - 4.39

No of shafts

2

Machinery

Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kn

36.75

Fuel, t

oil 588

Armament

4 x 1 - 114/45 QF Mk IV, 1 x 2 - 40/56 Bofors, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (35 DC)

Sensors

presumably type 275, 277, 282, 291 radars, type 123? 127 sonars

Complement

186 - 222

Ship project history: British "Cr" class destroyers transferred to Norway before completion.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

 

Trondheim 1953

 

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