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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, t	243
Displacement full, t	275
Length, m	39.8
Breadth, m	6.55
Draught, m	2.29
No of shafts	1
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
Complement	22

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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.