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HJÆLPEREN
(1953-1974)
(In English:
The Assistant)
-1351-1968.jpg)
Tender
HJÆLPEREN is here seen
after the
1966-67 conversion.
(Photo: Royal Danish Navy)
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Classification |
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Type: |
Tender for Fast Patrol Boats (FPB's) or Motor
Torpedo Boats (MTB's) |
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Class: |
n/a |
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Specifications |
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Built by: |
Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas,
USA |
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Design: |
n/a |
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Laid down: |
March 17, 1945 |
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Launched: |
April 7, 1945 |
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Commissioned: |
May 15, 1953 |
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Decommissioned: |
August 1974 |
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Pennant Number: |
A563 |
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Int'l Call Sign: |
OUGC |
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Displacement: |
1,030 tons |
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Dimensions: |
Length: |
Beam: |
Draught: |
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64.26 m |
10.92 m |
2.41 m (fore)
1.98 m (aft) |
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Complement: |
102 men (10 officers and 92 petty officers and
privates) |
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Propulsion: |
2 x GMC Cleveland diesel engines 2,880 Hp
2 screws |
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Range: |
3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots |
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Armament: |
2 ea
40 mm Machine Gun Mk M/36 LvSa2 (2x2)
After 1958:
2 ea
40 mm
Machine Gun Mk M/48 LvSa (2x1) |
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Speed: |
12.33 knots |
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History |
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Date: |
Military Service: |
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1960 |
Together with MTB's of the 11th Torpedo Boat
Squadron the tender took part in a Danish movie |
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1966-1967 |
Modernized at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Copenhagen |
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1971-1972 |
Converted and modernized at the Svendborg Ship Yard |
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Commanders |
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Commanding Officer: |
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n/a |
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Notes |
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Build as an US Landing Ship (LSM-500), converted at the Naval Ship Yard,
Charleston, USA in 1953 |
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Delivered as the first ship of the military arms program (MDAP). Later came
the sister ships, the mine layers BESKYTTEREN and VINDHUNDEN |
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Towed away from Naval Base Copenhagen in 1976. In 1977-1978 the ship were
seen at the Pounds Marine Shipping, Portsmouth, England. In March 1979 it
was at the Husbands Shipyard, Marchwood, England. - Presumed scrapped. |
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HJÆLPEREN before the 1966/1967
conversion.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal
Danish Naval Museum) |
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-741-1963.jpg)
HJÆLPEREN shortly after delivery to the
Royal Danish Navy and still showing
the original US pennant number LSM 500.
(Photo: Archives of the Royal
Danish Naval Museum) |
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Sources: |
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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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44You
are also referred to the
Naval Bibliography |
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