NoCGV Svalbard
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| Name: | KV Svalbard |
| Builder: | Hull at Tangen Verft, Kragerø Outhfitting at Langsten Tomrefjord |
| Cost: | NOK 575 million (US$80 million)[Note 1] |
| Laid down: | 9 August 2000 |
| Launched: | 17 February 2001 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 2001 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 8640387 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Offshore patrol vessel |
| Displacement: | 6,375 tonnes |
| Length: |
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| Beam: | 62.6 ft (19.1 m) |
| Height: | 27.2 ft (8.3 m) |
| Draught: | 21.3 ft (6.5 m) |
| Installed power: | Four Rolls-Royce Bergen BRG-8 diesel generators (4 × 3,390 kW) |
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| Speed: | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
| Complement: | 50 (20 Officers and 45 Other Ranks split into 3 shifts with 2 shifts on board at any one time) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
EADS TRS-3D /16 ES with IFF |
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| Aircraft carried: | Capacity for two helicopters; one Lynx carried initially, NH90 from 2009 |
The Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker and offshore patrol vessel KV Svalbard (W303) was constructed by Langsten AS at Tangen Verft shipyard in Kragerø and launched on 17 February 2001. She was named 15 December in Tomrefjord with Minister of Defence Kristin Krohn Devold as godmother, and delivered to the Coast Guard on 18 January 2002. She entered service in mid-2002 and is homeported in Sortland. Her primary operating area is in the Arctic waters north of Norway, the Barents Sea and around the Svalbard islands.
Svalbard is the largest ship in Norway's military armed forces (by tonnage), designed to supplement the 3 other helicopter carrying ships of the Norwegian Coast Guard - the Nordkapp class patrol vessels. She is NBC-protected with constant overpressure, and is capable of icebreaking and emergency towing up to 100.000 tons. The Norwegian coastline is generally free of ice, thus Svalbard is the only active Norwegian icebreaking-capable vessel. A double acting ship, Svalbard is designed to break ice both ahead and astern.
On 9 July 2007 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had announced that Canada would be building six to eight arctic offshore patrol ships (AOPS) for the Royal Canadian Navy, modeled after the Svalbard's design.[2][3] However, due to cost constrains the design was changed to a more conventional twin-shaft arrangement and as of 2015[update] the number of ships has been reduced to five with an option for six if it comes under the CAD$3.5 billion budget.[4] The project has been criticized for high costs; for example, Irving Shipbuilding was contracted with CAD$288 million to design the vessels while the design of similar patrol ships in other countries paid less than tenth as much and similar vessels, including Svalbard, were built for about one third of the value of the AOPS's design contract.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Radar and helicopter not included.
References
- ↑ References - Propulsion Products. ABB. Retrieved 2015-05-28.
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External links
- Marinelog article
- Marinetalk article: KV Svalbard
- Norwegian Forsvaerets article: KV Svalbard
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