Tjeld-class patrol boat

Tjeld-class patrol boat HNoMS Gribb
Class overview
Operators:
Built: 1959–1966
In commission: 1960–1992
Completed: 50
General characteristics
Type: Patrol boat
Displacement: 82 long tons (83 t)
Length: 24.5 m (80 ft 5 in)
Beam: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Draught: 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)
Propulsion: 2 × Napier Deltic Turboblown diesel engines, 6,200 hp (4,623 kW)
Speed: 45 knots (52 mph; 83 km/h)
Complement: 18 men (Norwegian Navy)
Armament:

The Tjeld class was 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 was also known in the US and Germany 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 of Annapolis, Maryland (some parts, such as the keel and stem being imported). The US Navy used them as PTF boats in the Vietnam War.

Vessels

Prototype

Royal Norwegian Navy

Twenty-two vessels were 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.

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 information concerning their fate. Many were part of DESOTO patrols.

Hellenic Navy

Six vessels constructed in Norway and sold to the Hellenic Navy.

German Navy

Two vessels constructed in Norway and sold to the German Navy where they were called Schnellboot Nasty-Klasse Typ 152 and served as testboats.

Turkish Navy

Two ships transferred to the Turkish Navy from the German Navy, after the tests were finished.

References

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External links


Royal Norwegian Navy patrol boat classes
 
HNoMS Rap 1873–1920
Rapp 1952–?
Tjeld 1959–1992
Storm 1965–2000
Snøgg 1970–1994
Hauk 1979–2009
Skjold 1999–Present
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