.jpg) HNoMS Hitra entering Scalloway harbour in the Shetland Islands, June 2003
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | SC-718 |
| Builder | Fisher Boat Works, Detroit |
| Laid down | 22 September 1942 |
| Launched | 31 March 1943 |
| Commissioned | 25 May 1943 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Norwegian Navy, October 1943 |
 Norway | |
| Name | Hitra |
| Namesake | Island of Hitra |
| Commissioned | 26 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 8 December 1954 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold to civilian interests in 1958, gifted to the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum in Horten in 1981; Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 125 tons |
| Length | 110.6 ft (33.71 m) |
| Beam | 18.8 ft (5.73 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft (1.83 m) |
| Propulsion | Two General Motors diesel engines with 1,200 hp, two shafts. After 1999: Two retrofitted 550 hp MTU 8V 183 TE72 diesel engines. |
| Speed | 20 knots (37.04 km/h). Cruising speed after 1999, with MTU engines: 15,2 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Range | 2,500 nautical miles (4,630.00 km) at 10 knots (18.52 km/h) |
| Complement | 24 men |
| Armament |
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| Notes | All the above listed information, unless otherwise noted, was acquired from[1] |
HNoMS Hitra is a Royal Norwegian Navy submarine chaser that saw action during World War II. She is named after the Norwegian island of Hitra.
- ^ Abelsen 1986, p. 278