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Arendal 1953

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Badsworth, 1946- Arendal	L03, 1950- D310, 1956- F310		Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK	5/1940	17.3.1941	8/1941 // 11.1944	stricken 5.1961
Tromsø (ex-Zetland)	D311, 1956- F311		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	10/1940	7.3.1942	6/1942 // late1952	stricken 1965
Haugesund (ex-Beaufort)	D312, 1956- F312		Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK	7/1940	9.6.1941	11/1941 // late1952	stricken 1965

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1050
Displacement full, t	1625
Length, m	80.5 pp 85.3 oa
Breadth, m	9.60
Draught, m	3.78 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	oil 265
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Badsworth: 3 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XVI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 QF Mk VIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV, 2 DCT, 3 DCR (30 - 60) Tromsø: 3 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk 7, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 3, 2 DCT, 3 DCR (30 - 60) Haugesund: 3 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk 7, 2 DCT, 3 DCR (30 - 60)
Electronic equipment	type 271 (some), type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	168

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Project history

British Hunt series II escort destroyers, transferred in 1944 and in 1952.

Modernizations

1954, all: lattice mast was installed; armament consisted of 2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19 ("A" and "Y" mounts), 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 2 x 3 - 305 Squid ASWRL, 2 DCT, 3 DCR (30), type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128, type 147B sonars (electronics presumably)

Naval service

No significant events.