Peder Skram-class frigate

Peder Skram
Class overview
Name: Peder Skram
Builders: Helsingør Skibsværft og Maskinbyggeri A/S, Denmark
Operators: Royal Danish Navy
Built: 1964-1967
In commission: 1967-1987
Planned: 2
Completed: 2
Retired: 2
Preserved: 1
General characteristics
Type:frigate
Displacement:2200 tons standard, 2720 tons full load
Length:112.6 m
Beam:12 m
Draught:4.3 m
Propulsion:2 shaft CODOG, 2 x 22,000 SHP gas turbines (modified Pratt & Whitney JT4); 2 x 2,400 SHP General Motors diesel engines
Speed:28 knots
Range:2500 nmi at 18 knots
Complement:Initially
  • 207

After Mid-Life Update

  • 180
Sensors and
processing systems:
    • Radar: CWS-2, CWS-3, NWS-1, NWS-2, 3 x M-66, 2 x Mk91 (added on refit)
    • Sonar: MS-26
Armament:As Built
  • 4 5 inch/38 guns (2x2)
  • 4 x 40 mm/L70 Bofors (4 single mounts) guns
  • 8 x Depth Charges
  • 4 x 553mm torpedo tubes (2x2) - Fitted in 1970

After Mid-Life Update

  • 2 5 inch/38 guns (2x2)
  • 4 x 40 mm/L70 Bofors (4 single mounts) guns
  • 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes (2x2)
  • 8 - Harpoon SSM
  • 1 x 8 Sea Sparrow SAM launcher
  • 8 x Depth Charges
Aviation facilities:nil

The Peder Skram class frigate was a class of frigate built for the Royal Danish Navy in the period 1964 - 1967. Only two vessels in this class were ever constructed, Peder Skram F352 and Herluf Trolle F353. The ships were named after Danish Admirals Peder Skram and Herluf Trolle

The ships were modernised in 1976-78 and fitted with guided missiles. Herluf Trolle suffered a serious engine room fire in 1982 and was repaired by 1983. Both ships were placed in reserve in 1987 decommissioned in 1990. Peder Skram is preserved and open to the public at the naval station in Copenhagen. Herluf Trolle was scrapped in Belgium in 1995.

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