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Edited and
Designed by:

Johnny E. Balsved

Classification

Type:

Minelayer (ex. Landing Ship Medium)

Class:

BESKYTTEREN Class

Units in Class

PT No.:

Name:

Launched:

Comm.:

Decomm.:

N60

BESKYTTEREN

12/12/1944

06/08/1954

11/12/1964

N61

VINDHUNDEN

12/17/1944

06/22/1954

11/12/1964

Comments to the Class

None

Specifications

Built by:

Charleston Naval Ship Yard, USA

Design:

n/a

Displacement:

1,150 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

63.76 m

10.49 m

2.90 m

Complement:

75 men (7 officers and 68 ratings and enlisted)

Propulsion:

2 ea GMC/Cleveland Diesel engines 2,880 Hps.
2 ea Propellers

Range:

3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots

Armament:

8 ea 40 mm Machine Gun M/36 LvSa2 (4x2)
6 ea 20 mm Machine Gun M/42 LvSa (6x1)

Speed:

12 knots

Additional Notes

Originally built as Landing Ship Medium for the US Navy, and sister ships to the tender HJÆLPEREN.

More Photos

The Minelayer VINDHUNDEN still with the US pennant number on the hull.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

Sources:

&

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

44You are also referred to the Naval Bibliography