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NORDKAPP patrol vessels (1937)


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Nordkapp 1937

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nordkapp     MV Horten   18.8.1937 1937 stricken 1956
Senja     MV Horten   25.8.1937 1937 captured by Germany 9.4.1940 (Löwe), returned 5.1945, stricken 1954


Technical data


Displacement standard, t243
Displacement full, t275
Length, m39.8
Breadth, m6.55
Draught, m2.29
No of shafts1
Machinery

2 Sulzer diesel-generators, 1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

830

Max speed, kts

13.7

Fuel, t

diesel oil 30

Endurance, nm(kts)3200(11)
Armament

1 x 1 - 47/46 Bofors, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement22


Standard scale images


<i>Nordkapp </i>1950
Nordkapp 1950
<i>Senja</i> 1945
Senja 1945


Graphics


<i>Nordkapp</i> 1937
Nordkapp 1937


Project history

Purpose built patrol ships, could be used as survey ships.

Modernizations

by 1946, both were armed with 1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk V, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 DCR(12)

Naval service

Senja was captured by German destroyers in Ufut-fjord 9.4.1940 and sunk by British aircraft in Narvik after three days. Subsequently Germans could salvage Senja which after war has been returned to Norway.