HNoMS Narvik (F304)

Norwegian frigate Narvik (F304).
Career (Norway)
Name:	Narvik
Ordered:	1960
Launched:	8 January 1965
Commissioned:	30 November 1966
Decommissioned:	1 August 2007
Identification:	F304
Fate:	transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten
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 Narvik (pennant number F304) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Narvik, the last active ship of the class, was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten.^[1]

Dealey-class destroyer escorts  United States Navy Dealey Cromwell Hammerberg Courtney Lester Evans Bridget Bauer Gatch / Hooper John Willis Van Voorhis Hartley Joseph K. Taussig  Royal Norwegian Navy Oslo-class frigates Oslo Bergen Trondheim Stavanger Narvik  Portuguese Navy Pereira da Silva-class frigates Almirante Pereira da Silva Almirante Gago Coutinho Almirante Magalhães Correia   Other operators  Colombian Navy Boyacá (ex-Hartley)  National Navy of Uruguay 18 de Julio (ex-Dealey) Preceded by: John C. Butler class Followed by: Claud Jones class List of destroyer escorts of the United States Navy List of frigates of the Royal Norwegian Navy List of frigates of the Portuguese Navy

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