HDMS Peter Tordenskiold (F356)
{{short description|Niels Juel-class corvette}}
{{other ships|HDMS Peter Tordenskiold}}
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}} {{Infobox ship image | Ship image = File:F356 - PETO.jpg | Ship caption = HDMS Peter Tordenskiold underway on 4 September 2007 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header = | Ship identification = *Callsign: OUET
| Ship notes = | Ship fate = Scrapped, 2013 | Ship honours = | Ship reinstated = | Ship struck = | Ship out of service = | Ship in service = | Ship decommissioned = 18 August 2009 | Ship country = Denmark | Ship commissioned = 2 April 1982 | Ship acquired = | Ship launched = 30 April 1980 | Ship laid down = 3 December 1979 | Ship builder = Aalborg Værft, Aalborg | Ship ordered = | Ship namesake = Peter Tordenskjold | Ship name = Peter Tordenskiold | Ship flag = {{shipboxflag|Denmark|naval}} | Ship badge = 100px }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Ship range = * {{convert|4000|nmi}} at {{convert|18|kn}}
| Ship armament = *Harpoon SSM
| Ship EW = | Ship sensors = | Ship time to activate = | Ship complement = *93 standard
| Ship endurance = 25 days | Ship speed = {{convert|30|kn}} (with turbine) | Header caption = | Ship propulsion = *1 × General Electric gas turbine
| Ship power = *{{convert|25700|shp|kW|abbr=on}} gas turbine
| Ship draft = {{convert|4.8|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|10.3|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship length = {{convert|84|m|ft|abbr=on}} | Ship displacement = 1,450 tonnes | Ship class = {{sclass|Niels Juel|corvette}} | Ship notes = }} |
HDMS Peter Tordenskiold (F356) was a {{sclass|Niels Juel|corvette}} in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. The ship is named after Peter Tordenskjold, a 17th-century Dano-Norwegian vice admiral.
Design
{{Main|Niels Juel-class corvette}}
The corvettes are fitted with an Otobreda 76 mm main gun, two quad RGM-84C Harpoon Surface-to-surface missile (SSM) launchers, a Mod 3 VLS Sea Sparrow Surface-to-air missile (SAM) launcher carrying 12 missiles, two FIM-92A Stinger SAM launchers, two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, seven 12.7 mm M/01 LvSa{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} machine guns, and a Mark 3 Depth charge 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 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 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. Commissioned on 2 April 1982.
Peter Tordenskjold was decommissioned in 2009 and was scrapped by Lindø shipyard in February 2013.{{Cite web|title=PETER TORDENSKIOLD (1982- ), Korvet|url=http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Skibene/P/PeterTordenskiold(1982).htm|access-date=2020-12-04|website=www.navalhistory.dk}}
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 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
- {{HDMS|Olfert Fischer|F355}}
- {{HDMS|Niels Juel|F354}}
References
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External links
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