HDMS Niels Juel (F354)

HDMS Niels Juel (F354) was a Niels Juel-class corvette in the Royal Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. The ship was named after Niels Juel, a 16th-century Danish admiral.

For other ships with the same name, see HDMS Niels Juel.
HDMS Niels Juel underway on 6 June 2005
History
Denmark
Name: Niels Juel
Namesake: Niels Juel
Builder: Aalborg Værft, Aalborg
Laid down: 20 October 1977
Launched: 17 February 1978
Commissioned: 26 August 1989
Decommissioned: 18 August 2009
Identification:
Fate: Scrapped, 2013
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Niels Juel-class corvette
Displacement: 1,450 tonnes
Length: 84 m (275 ft 7 in)
Beam: 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in)
Draft: 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) (with turbine)
Range:
  • 4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi) at 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
  • 1,020 nmi (1,890 km; 1,170 mi) at 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Endurance: 25 days
Complement:
  • 93 standard
  • 110 during operations
Armament:

Design
Main article: Niels Juel-class corvette

The corvettes were fitted with an Otobreda 76 mm main gun, two quad RGM-84C Harpoon surface-to-surface missile (SSM) launchers, a MK 48 Mod 3 VLS Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile (SAM) launcher carrying 12 missiles, two FIM-92A Stinger SAM launchers, two 20 mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, seven 12.7 mm M/01 LvSa machine guns, and a Mark 3 depth charge launcher.[1]

Niels Juel's radar suite consisted of two Terma Scanter Mil 009 units for navigation, an EADS TRS-3D air search unit, and a CelsiusTech 9GR 600 surface search unit.[1] Fire control was provided by a CelsiusTech 9 LV 200 gun radar, and a General Dynamics Mk 95 missile radar.[1] She was fitted with a Plessey PMS-26 hull-mounted sonar.[1] The corvette was fitted with a Rascall Cutlass B-1 intercept unit, a Telgon HFD/F unit, and four 6-round Seagnat Mk 36 chaff launchers.[1]

Construction and career

She was laid down on 20 October 1977 and launched on 17 February 1978 by Aalborg Værft, Aalborg. The vessel was commissioned on 26 August 1989.

Niels Juel was decommissioned in 2009 and was scrapped by Lindø shipyard in February 2013.[2]

  • HDMS Niels Juel at Limfjorden in January 1979.
  • HDMS Niels Juel's engine control room in January 1979.
  • HDMS Niels Juel's engine control room in January 1979.
  • HDMS Niels Juel's engine control room in January 1979.
  • HDMS Niels Juel at Limfjorden awaiting scrap on 3 February 2010.

See also

References
  1. Wertheim (ed.), Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, p. 154
  2. "NIELS JUEL (1980- ), Corvette". navalhistory.dk. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
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