NoCGV Svalbard

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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