NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Holger Danske (ex-Monnow)	F338		Hill, Bristol, UK	9.1943	4.12.1943	8.1944 // 20.10.1945	stricken 8.1959
Niels Ebbesen (ex-Annan)	F339	774	Hall Russell, Aberdeen, UK	6.1943	29.12.1943	6.1944 // 22.11.1945	stricken 5.1963

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1460
Displacement full, t	2180
Length, m	86.3 pp 91.8 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.61 - 3.89 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	oil 646
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/40 CP MK XXIII, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (126)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272, type 291 or type 277 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	140

Standard scale images

Project history

Former British (both also served under Canadian flag) 'River' class frigates. Served as TS.

Modernizations

1946, both: + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 450 TT

1948-1949, both: - 2 x 1 - 102/40; + 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30

1951, both: - 2 x 2 - 20/70; + 3 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

1952, both: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT

Naval service

No significant events.

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