Storm class patrol boat

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Career
[[Image:No Image.jpg\|300px\|No Image Storm class patrol boat
Ordered:	?
Laid down:	?
Launched:	1965-1967
Commissioned:	?
General Characteristics
Length	36,5 m (120 ft)
Beam	6,2 m (20 ft)
Draft	1,8 m
Displacement	138 tons
Propulsion	2 Maybach diesel engines (7200HP total)
Complement	19 men in Norwegian Navy 24 men in Latvian Navy
Armament	Penguin ship to ship missiles One 76 mm cannon One 40 mm canon
Speed	Over 30 knots
Sensors	?

The Storm class fast patrol boats (FPB) are a class of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. In Norwegian these boats are called missilkanonbåter (MKB) which means boats with missiles and guns. They were operated by the Coastal Combat Flotilla together whith the MTBs or Missile Torpedo Boats. None of the boats are in operation in the Royal Norwegian Navy today. The design was Norwegian and all of the boats where built by Norwegian ship yards from 1965 to 1967. At the end of the 1990s four vessels where sold to Lithuania and four where sold to Latvia. The prototype Storm, completed May 31, 1963 was later scrapped and replaced by a second boat of that name and pennant P960, completed in 1968 as the last of the class. After 1970 Penguin missiles were fitted to these boats in addition to the original armament. [ref. Jane's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1979-80]

[edit] Vessels

The vessels are listed with their pennant numbers in RNoN service:

- Arg P968
- Blink P961 Is on display, fully equipped at the Royal Norwegian Naval Museum in Horten, Norway.
- Brann P970
- Brask P977 Is on display on land at Haakonsvern Naval Base in Bergen.
- Brott P974
- Djerv P966
- Glimt P962
- Gnist P979 (1967-2000) Sold to the Latvian Navy and renamed LVNS Linga.
- Hvass P972 (?-2000) Sold to the Latvian Navy and renamed LVNS Lode.
- Kjekk P965
- Odd P975
- Pil P976 Previously used as a damage control and fire fighting training vessel. Placed on land at Haakonsvern Naval base.
- Rokk P978
- Skjold P963
- Skudd P967
- Steil P969
- Storm P960
- Traust P973
- Tross P971
- Trygg P964

Note: The Norwegian prefix for RNoN vessels is KNM.

[edit] External link

Nice photo of Brask on land whith German, Danish, Polish and Norwegian FPB officers in front

[edit] Sources

Information folder from Forsvarets rekrutterings- og mediesenter (Norwegian defence recruitment and media center) 1991/92
Article about Norwegian-Baltic naval cooperation (norwegian)
LVNS Linga's home page