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Ocean patrol vessel HDMS Vædderen (F 359)

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Classification

Ship class:
Thetis-class ocean patrol vessel (Stanflex 3000)
Type:
Patrol boat

Basic information

Operator:
Royal Danish NavyRoyal Danish Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Svendborg Shipyard
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Status:
Active
MMSI number:
219524000

Ship measurements

Displacement:
3,500 t
Length:
112.5 m
Beam:
14.5 m
Draft:
6 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODAD IEP-FEP-IFEP
Propulsion:
  • 3 * MAN B&W 12v28/32A-D at 2,940 kW (3,943 hp) diesel engines
  • 3 * Detroit GM 16V 7163-7305 at 480 kW (640 hp) diesel-generators
  • 1 * Detroit 6L-71N 1063-7005 at 120 kW (160 hp) (EMG) diesel-generator
  • 1 * shaft
  • 1 * Brunvoll azimuth thruster (800 kW)
  • 1 * electrical Brunvoll bow thruster (600 kW)
Speed:
21.8 knots
Range:
8,700 nmi at 15 kn

Personnel

Complement:
60
Ship's company:
52
Air wing:
8

Combat assets

Boats & landing craft:
  • 2 * 7 m (23 ft) RHIBs
Electronics:
  • 1 * Terma Scanter Mil 009 navigational radar
  • 1 * Furuno FR-1505 DA surface search radar
  • 1 * Plessey AWS-6 air search radar
  • 1 * SaabTech Vectronics 9LV 200 Mk 3 fire control system
  • 1 * SaabTech CTS-36 hull-mounted sonar
  • Thales TMS 2640 Salmon variable depth sonar
  • FLIR Systems AN/AAQ-22 SAFIRE thermal imager
  • 1 * Thales Defense Ltd Cutlass radar warning receiver
  • 1 * Thales Defense Scorpion radar jammer
  • 2 * Sea Gnat launchers (for chaff and flares)
Armament:
  • 1 * 76-mm 62-cal. OTO Melara Super Rapid DP
  • 7 * 12.7 mm heavy machine guns
  • 4 * 7.62 mm light machine guns
  • 1 * depth charge rack and MU90 Advanced Lightweight Torpedo for anti-submarine warfare
Aircraft:
  • 1 * Westland Lynx Mk90B. From approx. 2016: MH-60R

HDMS (Her Danish Majesty's Ship) Vædderen (F359) is a Thetis-class ocean patrol vessel of the Royal Danish Navy. She is employed to exercise Danish sovereignty in waters around the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Vædderen (Aries) was recently refitted at Karstensens Shipyard A/S in Skagen, Denmark and sailed from Amailiehaven, Copenhagen in August 2006 on the Galathea 3 scientific expedition. Galathea 3 is now complete and Vædderen is back in service as an inspection ship. In August 2010 Vædderen and HDMS Knud Rasmussen participated in the fourth annual Operation Nanook 2010 with Canadian and American vessels in Baffin Bay and the Davis Straits.

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