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Huitfeldt 1952

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Huitfeldt (ex-Nymfen)	T1, 4.1951- D320, 9.1958- P520		Orlogsværftets, København	7.1942	22.6.1943	7.1947	stricken 7.1964
Willemoes (ex-Najaden)	T2, 4.1951- D321, 9.1958- P521		Orlogsværftets, København	7.1942	17.3.1943	5.1947	stricken 1.1966

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	782
Displacement full, t	901
Length, m	85.0 pp 86.5 oa
Breadth, m	8.50
Draught, m	3.25
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Atlas geared steam turbines, 2 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	24000
Max speed, kts	35
Fuel, t	oil 100
Endurance, nm(kts)	1600(12)
Armament	2 x 1 - 105/42 KM40, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 6 x 1 - 20/60 Madsen M41, 2 x 3 - 450 TT, 2 DCT, 60 mines
Complement	108

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Project history

First torpedo boats of Danish Navy which are not yielding to foreign contemporaries in dimensions and armament. Design was developed by Danish Admiralty. Hull was flush-deck, all armaments (except TTs and 20mm Madsen MGs) were made by Bofors.

Building of these ships was been approved in 1939, however German intrusion in the spring 1940 and actual occupation have removed laying down for two years, to mid-1942. One year later torpedo boats were launched, but almost right after their rate of building has notably decreased: after August, 1943 regime of occupation was hardened and Danes meaningly works braked, being afraid, that right after completion Najaden and Nymfen will appear in Kriegsmarine list. Ships have become operational only in two years after an end of war (already since 1945 under new names). Instead of 533mm TTs provided by the project, which have not been made, torpedo boats were temporarily armed by 450mm ones, removed from Dragen class. In 1951 ships were reclassified as coastal destroyers, and in 1958 they beacme patrols.

Modernizations

1951, both: - 4 x 1 - 20/60, 2 x 3 - 450 TT; + 1 x 1 - 40/60 Bofors M36, 2 x 3 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 2 DCR, radar, sonar

1955, both: - 2 x 1 - 20/60

Naval service

No significant events.