Tjeld class patrol boat

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HNoMS Gribb

Tjeld class patrol boat
Career Royal Norwegian Navy Emblem
Ordered: 1958
Laid down: 1958
Launched: 1959-1966
Commissioned: 1960-1966
General characteristics
Length 24,5 m (80‘4“)
Beam 7,5 m (24‘7“)
Draft 2,08 m (6‘10“)
Displacement 82 tons
Propulsion Twin Napier Deltic Turboblown diesel engines (Total 6200 HP)
Complement 18 men in Norwegian Navy
Armament One 40 mm Bofors gun
One 20 mm Rheinmetall gun
Four 21“ torpedotubes
Speed 45 knots
Sensors Radar

The Tjeld class were a class of fast patrol boats (FPB) designed in Norway. They were used as torpedo boats in Norway where this type of vessel were called MTBs or motor torpedo boats (motortorpedobåt). The class were also known as the Nasty class.

The prototype Nasty was designed, built and tested during the fall of 1957. The Tjeld class was developed and introduced by Boat Services Ltd. A/S, Oslo, in close cooperation with Royal Norwegian Navy officers with World War II experience in Fast Patrol Boats; the chief designer being naval architect Jan Herman Linge. The Norwegian Tjeld class vessels were constructed at A/S Westermoen Båtbyggeri og Mek Verksted in Mandal.

The design was also sold to the USA, Greece and West Germany.

Six vessels were built in the USA by John Trumpy and Sons [1] of Annapolis, Maryland (some parts, such as the keel and stem being imported). The US Navy using them as PTF boats in the Vietnam War.

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[edit] Vessels

Prototype Nasty (1957-1974)

[edit] Royal Norwegian Navy

22 vessels built in Norway from 1959 to 1966. This list is of the ships in the order of launch with the year of launch, the year the ship left the Norwegian Navy's hands and any other information about the fate of the ship.

All the vessels are named after birds or fish (and three sea mammals). Some of the boats were renamed as the bird names were going to be used for the Hauk class patrol boat. The boats took over the names of other Tjeld class vessels which were sold in 1981.

  • HNoMS Tjeld (1959-1992) Renamed Sel. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
  • HNoMS Skarv (1959-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Teist (1960-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Jo (1960-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Lom (1961-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Stegg (1961-1992) Renamed Hval. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
  • HNoMS Hauk (1961-1992) Renamed Laks. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
  • HNoMS Falk (1961-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Ravn (1961-1992) Renamed Knurr. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
  • HNoMS Gribb (1961-?) Renamed Delfin. Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Was planned to be preserved by Kværner Mandal A/S, but later sold for scrapping.
  • HNoMS Geir (1962-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Erle (1962-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Sel (1963-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Hval (1964-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Laks (1964-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Hai (1964-?) Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Plans are currently underway for Hai to be preserved as a museum ship in Fredrikstad.
  • HNoMS Knurr (1964-1981) Sold to Stapletask Ltd, Sittingbourne, Kent, England.
  • HNoMS Lyr (1965-1992) Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Sold for scrapping 1992.
  • HNoMS Skrei (1965-?) Transferred to Naval Reserve and used by Sea Home Guard. Transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum and preserved as a museum ship.
  • HNoMS Delfin (1966-1984) Given to Friends of the Shetland bus as a preservation project, but the project failed and the ship was given to a private person.

[edit] US Navy

14 vessels built in Norway and sold to USA. Six vessels built under licence in USA. This list contains the names of the vessels, first year of service in the US Navy, the year they left US Navy hands and any other informtion concerning their fate.

[edit] Hellenic Navy

Six vessels constructed in Norway and sold to Greece.

  • HS Andromeda (P196)
  • HS Kiknos (P198)
  • HS Pigasos (P199)
  • HS Toxotis (P228)

[edit] German Navy

Two vessels constructed in Norway and sold to the German Navy. They were called Schnellboot Nasty-Klasse Typ 152 in Germany an servetd as testboats. After the tests were finished these were transferred to the Turkish Navy.

[edit] Turkish Navy

  • TS Dogan (1964-?) ex. Hugin
  • TS Marti (1964-?) ex. Munin

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Norwegian state flag
Royal Norwegian Navy patrol boat classes
 
HNoMS Rap 1873-1920
Rapp 1952-?
Tjeld 1959-1992
Storm 1965-2000
Snøgg 1970-1994
Hauk 1979-Present
Skjold 1999-Present