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Johnny E. Balsved

Data Sheet

Service

CO's

Photo Album

Crest

Classification

Type:

Minelayer

Class:

FALSTER Class

Other Ships
in Class:

N80 FALSTER
N82 MØEN
N83 SJÆLLAND

Specifications

Built by:

Frederikshavn Værft og Flydedok A/S

Design:

Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen

Laid down:

April 12, 1962

Launched:

October 3, 1962

Commissioned:

September 18, 1963

Decommissioned:

October 2003

Pennant Number:

N81

Int'l Call Sign:

OVLO

Displacement:

1,991 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

76.94 m

12.80 m

3.69 m

Complement:

Originally 120 men

From 1993/94:

74 men (10 officers and 64 ratings)

Propulsion:

2 ea General Motors Diesel Engines 4,000 Hps
2 ea Propellers

Range:

5,820 nautical miles at 11.4 knots

Armament:

4 ea 76 mm Guns Mk M/60 LvSa2 (2x2)

From 1986-1993/94 further:

4 ea 20 mm Machine Gun Mk M/42 LvSa (4x1)

After 1993/94:

2 ea 76 mm Guns Mk M/60 LvSa2 (1x2)
3 ea Stinger Lv M/93
4 ea Seagnat/SBROC Mk. 36 (4x6)

Mine Load:

300-400 mines, estimated 290 tons

Speed:

17 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

March 20, 1965

Adopted by Frederikshavn

April 1974
- May 1974

Joined the Royal Flotilla to England

June 1978

Joined the Royal Flotilla to The Faeroe Islands

April 18, 1980

Collides with a Soviet MIRKA-class frigate in the Baltic

September 1985

Joined the Royal Flotilla to Sweden

1987

Released the Minelayer SJÆLLAND as tender during overhaul

1988-1990

Major overhaul and life time prolongation

July 1992
- August 1992

Joined the Royal Flotilla to Baltic States

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

 -

n/a

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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Søværnets operative Kommando, (Admiral Danish Fleet) Aarhus.

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