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Edited and
Designed by:

Johnny E. Balsved

Data Sheet

Service

CO's

Photo Album

Crest

Classification

Type:

Offshore Patrol Frigate

Class:

HVIDBJØRNEN Class

Other Ships
in Class:

F348 HVIDBJØRNEN
F349 VÆDDEREN
F350 INGOLF

Specifications

Built by:

Aalborg Ship Yard A/S

Design:

Naval Dock Yard, Copenhagen

Laid down:

June 27, 1962

Launched:

December 18, 1962

Commissioned:

July 10, 1963

Decommissioned:

July 11, 1991

Pennant Number:

F351

Int'l Call Sign:

OUEO

Displacement:

1,777 tons

Dimensions:

Length:

Beam:

Draught:

-

73.05 m

11.60 m

5.14 m

Complement:

86 officers and men

Propulsion:

4 ea GM Diesel Engines 6,400 Hp
1 ea Propeller

From around 1980 furthermore:

1 ea Ulstein Bow Thruster

Range:

6,000 nautical miles at 13.0 knots

Armament:

1 ea 76 mm Gun K M/61 LvSa
2 ea 37 mm Guns
1 ea Depth Charge Mortar Mk 1
2 ea. 51 mm Illumination Rocket Launchers M/56

Helicopter:

1 ea ALOUETTE III - until 1982, thereafter:

1 ea LYNX Mk 80/91

Speed:

18.5 knots

History

Date:

Military Service:

1964

Map Surveying in the Greenland area

1966 & 1967

Map Surveying in the Danish waters

July 1968
- August 1968

In the Royal Flotilla to Greenland

1970 & 1971

Map Surveying in the Danish waters

1976

Fishery Inspection patrol off the Faeroes and Greenland

March 27, 1980
- March 29, 1980

Participated in the rescue operation at the capsized Norwegian oil rig Alexander Kielland in the Atlantic Ocean

May 5, 1982

Last flight of the ALOUETTE III helicopter

December 3, 1991

Sold for scrapping

January 21, 1992

Arrived at Nakskov and scrapped

Commanders

Date:

Commanding Officer:

February 15, 1980
- July 21, 1980

Commander s.g. Stephen M. Ditlevsen

Notes

None

More Photos

The offshore patrol frigate FYLLA in Dublin, 1978.
(Photo: Klavs Larsen)

The offshore patrol frigate FYLLA.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal Danish Naval Museum)

Sources:

&

Danske Søofficerer 1933-1982, edited by S. E. Pontoppidan and J. Teisen, published by Søe-Lieutenant-Selskabet, Copenhagen, 1984

&

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