HNoMS Otto Sverdrup (F312)

HNoMS Otto Sverdrup is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Otto Sverdrup in 2009
History
Norway
Name: Otto Sverdrup
Namesake: Norwegian explorer Otto Sverdrup
Ordered: 23 June 2000
Builder: Navantia, Ferrol
Laid down: 25 May 2005
Launched: 28 April 2006
Commissioned: 30 April 2008
Identification:
Status: Active
General characteristics
Class and type: Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate
Displacement: 5,290 tons
Length: 134 m (439.63 ft)
Beam: 16.8 m (55.12 ft)
Draft: 7.6 m (24.93 ft)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27 knots (50.00 km/h)
Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334.00 km)
Complement:
  • 120 men, accommodations for 146
  • Lockheed Martin AN/SPY-1F 3-D multifunction radar
  • Reutech RSR 210N air/sea surveillance radar
  • Sagem Vigy 20 Electro Optical Director
  • MRS 2000 hull mounted sonar
  • Captas MK II V1 active/passive towed sonar
  • 2 × Mark 82 fire-control radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys:		 Terma DL-12T decoy launcher, Loki torpedo countermeasure
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 1 × NH90 helicopter

Construction and commissioning

Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Otto Sverdrup was the third of the Fridtjof Nansen class to be launched and then commissioned into the Royal Norwegian Navy.[1]

Service

In November 2017 Otto Sverdrup visited London's West India Dock with the Portuguese frigate Francisco de Almeida. Both ships were part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 at the time.[2] The current Captain of the Otto Sverdrup is Captain Iris Fivelstad.

References
  1. "Fregatt – Nansenklassen" (in Norwegian). Forsvaret. Retrieved 2016-11-20.
  2. "Norwegian Navy ship HNoMS Otto Sverdrup". isleofdogslife. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  • "Fridtjof Nansen-class". forsvaret.no. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2018. - Royal Norwegian Navy's page on the Fridtjof Nansen class
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