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Johnny E. Balsved

Data Sheet

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Classification

Type:

Guided Missile Boat/Torpedo Boat

Class:

WILLEMOES Class

Other Ships
in Class:

P 541 BREDAL
P 542 HAMMER
P 543 HUITFELDT
P 544 KRIEGER
P 545 NORBY
P 546 RODSTEEN
P 547 SEHESTED
P 548 SUENSON
P 549 WILLEMOES

Specifications

Built by:

Frederikshavn Værft A/S, Denmark

Design:

Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen in cooperation with the company Lürssen in Germany and the Naval Material Command

Laid down:

October 18, 1974

Launched:

December 23, 1974

Commissioned:

June 14, 1977

Decommissioned:

March 15, 2000

Pennant Number:

P 540

Int'l Call Sign:

OVFV

Displacement:

260 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

46.00 m

7.40 m

2.45 m

Complement:

25 men (6 officers and 19 ratings)

Propulsion:

3 ea Rolls Royce Marine Proteus Gas Turbines 12,750 Hp
2 ea GM Diesel Engines 800 Hps
3 ea Propellers

Range:

400 nautical miles at 36 knots

Armament:

1 ea 76 mm Gun Mk M/71 LvSa
4-8 ea Harpoon SSM (2x2 or 2x4)
2 ea 533 mm Torpedo Tubes (Without SSM 4 ea)
6 ea 103 mm Rocket Launcher (illumination) (2x3)

From 1990 additional:

2 ea Seagnat/SBROC Mk. 36 (2x6)

From 1993 additional:

2 ea Stinger Lv M/93

Mines:

16 ea mines in stead of torpedo tubes

Speed:

40 knots (Gas Turbines)
12 knots (Diesel Engines)

Notes

None

Sources:

&

Flådens skibe og fartøjer 1945-1995, by Gunnar Olsen and Svenn Storgaard, Marinehistoriske skrifter,  Copenhagen 1998 (ISBN 87-87720-13-2)

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Søheltenes skibe - Historien om Søværnets torpedomissil-både af WILLEMOES-klassen, by Niels Chr. Borck & Søren Nørby, Statens Forsvarshistoriske Museum, Copenhagen, 2007 (ISBN 978-87-89022-52-1)

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Torpedobåde gennem 100 år - Det danske torpedobådsvåben 1879-1979, by Hans Garde & Hans Chr. Bjerg, Marinehistorisk Selskab, Copenhagen, 1979 (ISBN 87-87720-02-7)

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography