Willemoes-class missile boat

HDMS Sehested (P547) as a museum ship at the Holmen Naval Base
HDMS Sehested (P547) as a museum ship at the Holmen Naval Base
HDMS Sehested (P547)
Class overview
BuildersFrederikshavn Værft, Frederikshavn
Operators Royal Danish Navy
Built1974–1978
In commission1977–2000
Planned10
Completed10
Retired10
Preserved1
General characteristics
TypeMissile boat
Displacement260 tons, standard
Length46 m (150 ft 11 in)
Beam7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Draft2.2 m (7 ft 3 in)
Propulsion3 x Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbines (12,750 hp) and 2× General Motors 12V-71 diesel engines(730 hp)
Speed40 kn (74 km/h) on gas turbines; 12 kn (22 km/h) on diesels
Range400 nmi (740 km) at 36 kn (67 km/h)
Complement24
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1× Terma 20T48 navigation radar
  • 1× Philips Elektronik AB 9GR-208 air/surface radar
  • 1× Bofors Electronics 9LV Mk 1 (RAKEL 203) fire control radar
  • 1 × 9LV Naval Combat Management System
  • Racal Cutlass B-1 ESM
Armament

The Willemoes-class missile boat was a Royal Danish Navy class of fast missile boats serving from late 1970s until 2000.[1] Designed by Orlogsværftet, in conjunction with the German yard Lürssen,[2] the Willemoes class could achieve a maximum speed in excess of 40 knots (74 km/h; 46 mph). Their weapons consisted of one 76 mm (3 in) OTO Melara gun and combination of RGM-84 Harpoon missiles and torpedo tubes. When the full assortment of eight Harpoons was carried, two 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes were carried as well. With Harpoons removed, up to four torpedo tubes could be mounted.[3] Alternatively, it could carry a payload of naval mines.

The guided missile boat HDMS Sehested is now a museum ship at Holmen.

  1. ^ Flådens historie: Willemoes-klassen
  2. ^ "WILLEMOES-klassen (1977-2000), Torpedomissilbåde".
  3. ^ PEJČOCH, Ivo; NOVÁK, Zdeněk; HÁJEK, Tomáš. Válečné lodě 6 – Afrika, Blízký východ a část zemí Evropy po roce 1945. Praha : Ares, 1994. ISBN 80-86158-02-0. p. 63.