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Freja 1951 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Freja	4/1951- A541	164	Orlogsværftets, København	8.1938	22.12.1938	4.1939	captured by Germanu 29.8.1943 (Südpol), returned 5.1945, stricken 4.1967

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	322
Displacement full, t	342
Length, m	40.9
Breadth, m	7.71
Draught, m	2.17
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 VTE, 1 boiler
Power, h. p.	255
Max speed, kts	10.5
Fuel, t	oil 15
Endurance, nm(kts)	700
Armament	2 x 1 - 75/52 M.12, 2 x 1 - 20/56 Madsen
Complement	40

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Project history

Perhaps, fishery protection ships were unique ships of Danish Navy, intended for operations in high seas, though, of course, it is very difficult to consider them as rigorous warships. They represented very variegated company: huge, to Danish measures, Ingolf with more than 1000t displacement, armed with 120mm guns and carrying a seaplane, and small 80t Ternen with 37mm gun.

Modernizations

1945, armament consisted of: 2 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen

1954: - 2 x 1 - 20/60; + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, radar

Naval service

Freja were captured by Germans in August, 1943 at Copenhagen and became a part of Kriegsmarine 1.11.1943 as Südpol, but a year later received old name. She was retroceded in May, 1945 and commissioned again.

Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.