HNoMS Tyr (N50)
For other ships of the same name, see
HNoMS Tyr.
Tyr in Harstad in June 2011. |
| Career |
|
| Name: |
HNoMS Tyr |
| Namesake: |
Norse god Týr |
| Builder: |
Voldnes Skipsverft, Ålesund |
| Commissioned: |
7 March 1995 |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
735 tons full load |
| Length: |
42.5 m (139.4 ft) |
| Beam: |
10 m (32.8 ft) |
| Draught: |
6.5 m (21.3 ft) |
| Propulsion: |
Two x Deutch BA 12M816 |
| Speed: |
12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: |
20 |
| Armament: |
M2HB MG |
| Notes: |
Pennant number N50 |
HNoMS Tyr is a mine control vessel used for underwater search and recovery by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
History
Tyr was built at Voldnes Skipsverft in 1981 and was used as an offshore standby-ship in the North Sea under the name MS Sandby Master. The Royal Norwegian Navy took her over in 1993, and Tyr went through a comprehensive rebuilding and modernization program between 1994 and February, 1995 at the Mjellem & Karlsen shipyard in Bergen. Under the rebuilding Tyr was equipped with new thrusters, the bridge was expanded and a mine hangar was built on the aft-deck, and new hydraulic equipment was installed on the work-deck. Tyr was fitted with tactical systems, and was equipped with an Scorpio 21 ROV. The furnishings were also modernized.
Wreck discoveries and recoveries
HNoMS Tyr has discovered and/or recovered several wrecks:
- Localization and filming of the German battleship Scharnhorst in cooperation with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.[1]
- Localization and filming of the German U-boat U-864, sunk west of Fedje in 1945.[2]
- Localization and filming of the German U-boat U-735, sunk near Horten in the Second World War.[1]
- Localization and filming of the Polish troop-transport ship Chrobry, sunk in the Vestfjord in 1940.[1]
- Localization and filming of the Norwegian costal express ship SS Prinsesse Ragnhild, sunk off Bodø on 23 October, 1940.[3]
- Localization and filming of the Royal Navy destroyer Hunter sunk on 10 April, 1940 during the Battles of Narvik[4]
- Localization of the German prisoner transport ship Palatia, sunk in the Second World War. This is the second largest ship disaster in Norwegian history.[1]
- Relocalization of the Norwegian submarine Uredd, sunk on 24 February 1943 after hitting a German minefield.[1]
- Localization and recovery of a Norwegian F-16 fighter jet, which had crashed in Bindalsfjorden, May 1997.[1]
- Localization and recovery of a Norwegian F-16 fighter jet, which had crashed in the sea off Landegode, Bodø.[5]
- Search localization of assumed deceased, after the Sleipner disaster.[1]
- Search and recovery of both helicopter and the deceased after a helicopter crashed in the Førdefjorden in October 1996.[1]
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