HNoMS Bergen (F301)

Bergen in Bergen for the last time before being decommissioned in 2005
Career (Norway)
Name: Bergen
Ordered: 1960
Launched: 23 August 1965
Commissioned: 22 June 1967
Decommissioned: 3 August 2005
General characteristics
Class and type:Oslo-class frigate
Displacement:1,735 long tons (1,763 t) standard
2,100 long tons (2,134 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:3,900 nautical miles at 15 knots (7,200 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
and 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 Bergen (pennant number F301) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

She was launched on 23 August 1965, and commissioned on 22 June 1967. She was decommissioned on 3 August 2005, and is currently in use as an office facility.