For the Norwegian troop and refugee transport ship of the same name, see German night fighter direction vessel Togo.
History
Norway
Name
Svalbard
Namesake
Svalbard
Builder
Hull at Tangen Verft, Kragerø Outfitting at Langsten Tomrefjord
Cost
NOK 575 million[Note 1]
USD 66.9 million
Laid down
9 August 2000
Launched
17 February 2001
Commissioned
15 December 2001
Identification
Callsign: LBSV
IMO number: 8640387
MMSI number: 259040000
Status
In service
General characteristics
Class and type
Offshore patrol vessel
Displacement
6,375 tonnes
Length
340.2 ft (103.7 m) (overall)
292 ft (89 m) (waterline)
Beam
62.6 ft (19.1 m)
Draught
21.3 ft (6.5 m)
Depth
27.2 ft (8.3 m)
Installed power
Four Bergen BRG-8 diesel generators (4 × 3,390 kW)
Propulsion
Diesel-electric
Two ABB Azipod VI1500A units (2 × 5 MW)[1]
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
TRS-3D with IFF
Armament
57 mm gun
12.7 mm machine gun
Can carry 1 Simbad surface-to-air missile system[2]
Aircraft carried
Capacity for two helicopters; one Westland Lynx carried initially, NHIndustries NH90 from 2009
NoCGV Svalbard (W303) is a Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker and offshore patrol vessel constructed by Langsten at Tangen Verft shipyard in Kragerø and launched on 17 February 2001. She was named 15 December 2001 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 second largest ship in Norway's military armed forces (by tonnage), designed to supplement the three other helicopter-carrying ships of the Norwegian Coast Guard - the Nordkapp-class offshore 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 one of just two Norwegian icebreaking-capable vessel, the other being RV Kronprins Haakon. A double acting ship, Svalbard is designed to break ice both ahead and astern.
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