HNoMS Bergen (F301)

Bergen in Bergen for the last time before being decommissioned in 2005
History
Norway
Name: Bergen
Ordered: 1960
Launched: 23 August 1965
Commissioned: 22 June 1967
Decommissioned: 3 August 2005
General characteristics
Class & type: Oslo-class frigate
Displacement:
  • 1,735 long tons (1,763 t) standard
  • 2,100 long tons (2,134 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: 3,900 nautical miles at 15 knots (7,200 km at 28 km/h)
Complement: 120 (129 max) officers and men
Sensors and
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:

HNoMS Bergen (pennant number F301) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

She was launched on 23 August 1965, and commissioned on 22 June 1967. She was decommissioned on 3 August 2005, and is currently in use as an office facility.

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