HNoMS Narvik (F304)

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 and 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 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	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

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