HDMS ''Peter Tordenskiold'' (F356) was a in the
Royal Danish Navy
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which was in use until 1990. The ship is named after
Peter Tordenskjold
Vice-Admiral Peter Jansen Wessel Tordenskiold (28 October 1690 – 12 November 1720) was a Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy officer. Born in Trondheim, he travelled to Copenhagen in 1704 and eventually join the Dano-Norwegian navy, rising to the rank ...
, a 17th-century Dano-Norwegian
vice admiral
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Australia
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.
Design
The corvettes are fitted with an
Otobreda 76 mm
The OTO Melara 76 mm gun, marketed as the OTO 76/62 Gun Mount, is a naval autocannon built and designed by the Italian defence company OTO Melara. It is based on the OTO Melara 76/62C and evolved toward 76/62 SR and 76/62 Strales.
The s ...
main gun, two quad
RGM-84C Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile
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(SSM) launchers, a Mod 3 VLS
Sea Sparrow
The RIM-7 Sea Sparrow is a U.S. ship-borne short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapon system, primarily intended for defense against anti-ship missiles. The system was developed in the early 1960s from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile ...
Surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...
(SAM) launcher carrying 12 missiles, two
FIM-92A Stinger SAM launchers, two
20 mm Oerlikon
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anti-aircraft guns, seven 12.7 mm
M/01 LvSa machine guns, and a Mark 3
Depth charge
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launcher.
[Wertheim (ed.), ''Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World'', p. 154]
''Olfert Fischer''s radar suite consists of two Terma Scanter Mil 009 units for navigation, an EADS TRS-3D air search unit, and a CelsiusTech 9GR 600 surface search unit.
Fire control
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Fire prevention and control ...
is provided by a CelsiusTech 9 LV 200 gun radar, and a General Dynamics Mk 95 missile radar.
She is fitted with a Plessey PMS-26 hull-mounted sonar.
The corvette is fitted with a Rascall Cutlass B-1 intercept unit, a Telgon HFD/F unit, and four 6-round
Seagnat
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Mk 36 chaff launchers.
Construction and career
She was laid down on 3 December 1979 and launched on 30 April 1980 by
Aalborg Værft
Aalborg Shipyard ('' Danish: Aalborg Værft A/S'') was a shipyard located in Aalborg, Denmark.
Founded in 1912 by brothers Immanuel Stuhr and Peter Philip Stuhr, the shipyard was founded under the name Stuhr Engine and Ship Construction, a develop ...
,
Aalborg
Aalborg or Ålborg ( , , ) is Denmark's List of cities and towns in Denmark, fourth largest urban settlement (behind Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense) with a population of 119,862 (1 July 2022) in the town proper and an Urban area, urban populati ...
. Commissioned on 2 April 1982.
''Peter Tordenskjold'' was decommissioned in 2009 and was scrapped by
Lindø shipyard
Odense Steel Shipyard () was a Danish shipyard company located in Odense. It was best known for building container ships for its parent group, A.P. Moller – Maersk Group, including the Mærsk E class in 2006 which at the time were the bigge ...
in February 2013.
Gallery
File:US Navy 090608-N-0793R-006 The guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) is underway with the Danish Navy corvette HDMS Peter Terdemskiold (F 356) during exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2009.jpg, HDMS ''Peter Tordenskiold'' alongside USS Forrest Sherman
Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS ''Forrest Sherman'' for Admiral Forrest Sherman.
* was the lead ship
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during BALTOPS 2009.
File:US Navy 090608-N-0793R-003 The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-JCC 20) leads Danish Navy ships on the first day of the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise.jpg, HDMS ''Peter Tordenskiold'', HDMS Esbern Snare, HDMS Glenten and USS Mount Whitney during BALTOPS 2009.
See also
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References
External links
1980 ships
Corvettes of the Cold War
Niels Juel-class corvettes
Ships built in Aalborg
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