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SLEIPNER corvettes (1965-1967)


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Sleipner 1979

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sleipner P950, 1972- F310   Nylands, Oslo 1963 9.11.1963 29.4.1965 stricken 1993
Æger P951, 1972- F311   Akers, Oslo 1964 24.9.1965 31.3.1967 stricken 1993


Technical data


Displacement standard, t600
Displacement full, t780
Length, m

69.3

Breadth, m

7.90

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts2
Machinery

4 Maybach diesels

Power, h. p.

8800

Max speed, kts

22

Fuel, tdiesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

1 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 1 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 315, 1 x 6 - 375 Terne III ASWRL, 1 DCR (6)

Electronic equipmentDecca 202, Decca TM1229 radars, Terne Mk III, SQS-36 sonars
Complement

63



Standard scale images


<i>Sleipner </i>1975
Sleipner 1975


Graphics


<i>Sleipner </i>1979
Sleipner 1979


Project history

In 1959 the decision was taken to build five of this class, but three were cancelled.

Modernizations

1972, both: + 2 x 3 - 324 TT

8/1988, Sleipner; 5.1989, Æger: - SQS-36 sonar; + TSM2633 Spherion Mk 1 hull+VDS sonar

Naval service

No significant events.