HNoMS Bergen (F301)

Bergen in Bergen for the last time before being decommissioned in 2005
History
Norway
Name	Bergen
Ordered	1960
Builder	Marinens Hovedverft Horten
Launched	23 August 1965
Commissioned	22 June 1967
Decommissioned	3 August 2005
Fate	Scrapped March 2013
General characteristics
Class & type	Oslo-class frigate
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,473 t) standard 1,745 long tons (1,773 t) full load
Length	96.6 m (316 ft 11 in)
Beam	11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draft	5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	Twin steam boilers, one high pressure and one low pressure steam turbine, 20,000 hp (14,914 kW)
Speed	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Range	4,500 nautical miles at 15 knots (8,300 km at 28 km/h)
Complement	120 (129 max) officers and men
Sensors & processing systems	Siemens/Plessey AWS-9 long range air search radar Racal DeccaTM 1226 surface search radar in I band Kongsberg MSI-90(U) tracking and fire control system Raytheon Mk 95; I/J-band search and track radar for Sea Sparrow Medium frequency Thomson-CSF Sintra/Simrad TSM 2633 combined hull and VDS active sonar High frequency Terne III active sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	4 × Mark 36 SRBOC chaff launchers ESM: AR 700 suite
Armament	2 × 3 in (76 mm) cannon 1 × Bofors 40mm/70 anti-aircraft gun 2 × 20 mm Rheinmetall anti-aircraft guns 2 × 12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns 6 × Penguin SSMs (usually not mounted) 1 × 8-cell Raytheon RIM-7M Sea Sparrow Mk 29 SAM system 6 × Kongsberg Terne ASW rocket-thrown depth charges 2 × triple 324 mm (12.8 in) Mark 32 torpedo tubes (Sting Ray torpedoes)

HNoMS Bergen (pennant number F301) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.

She was launched on 23 August 1965, and commissioned on 22 June 1967. She was decommissioned on 3 August 2005 and broken up in March 2013 at Svolvaer.^[1]