HNoMS Tyr (N50)
HNoMS Tyr was a mine control vessel used for underwater search and recovery by the Royal Norwegian Navy. It was decommissioned in 2014 and sold to private owners.
Tyr in Harstad in June 2011. | |
History | |
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Name: | HNoMS Tyr |
Namesake: | Norse god Týr |
Builder: | Voldnes Skipsverft, Fosnavåg (31) |
Laid down: | 23 January 1981 |
Launched: | 23 May 1981 |
Completed: | August 1981 |
Commissioned: | 7 March 1995 |
Decommissioned: | August 2014 |
Identification: |
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Fate: | Sold to Idefix Danmark ApS, Hobro. Renamed IDEFIX |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 735 tons full load |
Length: | 42.5 m (139.4 ft) |
Beam: | 10 m (32.8 ft) |
Draught: | 6.5 m (21.3 ft) |
Ice class: | 1A |
Propulsion: | Two x Deutch BA 12M816 |
Speed: | 18 knots (33.3 km/h) |
Range: | 17,000 nautical miles |
Complement: | 20 |
Armament: | M2HB MG |
Notes: |
Pennant number N50 IMO Number 8019409 |
History
Tyr was built at Voldnes Skipsverft in 1981 and was used as an offshore standby-ship in the North Sea under the name MS Standby Master, yard number 31. The Royal Norwegian Navy took her over in December 1993, and Tyr went through a comprehensive rebuilding and modernization program between 1994 and February, 1995 at the Mjellem & Karlsen shipyard in Bergen. Under the rebuilding Tyr was equipped with new thrusters, the bridge was expanded and a mine hangar was built on the aft-deck, and new hydraulic equipment was installed on the work-deck. Tyr was fitted with tactical systems, and was equipped with a Scorpio 21 ROV. The furnishings were also modernized.
In 2014, Tyr was put up for sale by the Norwegian Armed Forces, with an estimated price of 15-20 million kr.[1]
Sold to Idefix Danmark ApS, Hobro. Renamed IDEFIX, August 2014.[2]
Wreck discoveries and recoveries
HNoMS Tyr has discovered and/or recovered several wrecks:
- Localization and filming of the German battleship Scharnhorst in cooperation with the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.[3]
- Localization and filming of the German submarine U-864, sunk west of Fedje in 1945.[4]
- Localization and filming of the German submarine U-735, sunk near Horten in the Second World War.[3]
- Localization and filming of the Polish troop-transport ship Chrobry, sunk in the Vestfjorden in 1940.[3]
- Localization and filming of the Norwegian coastal express ship SS Prinsesse Ragnhild, sunk off Bodø on 23 October 1940.[5]
- Localization and filming of the Royal Navy destroyer Hunter sunk on 10 April 1940 during the Battles of Narvik[6]
- Localization of the German prisoner transport ship Palatia, sunk in the Second World War. This is the second largest ship disaster in Norwegian history.[3]
- Relocalization of the Norwegian submarine Uredd, sunk on 24 February 1943 after hitting a German minefield.[3]
- Localization and recovery of a Norwegian F-16 fighter jet, which had crashed in Bindalsfjorden, May 1997.[3]
- Localization and recovery of a Norwegian F-16 fighter jet, which had crashed in the sea off Landegode, Bodø.[7]
- Search localization of assumed deceased, after the Sleipner disaster.[3]
- Search and recovery of both helicopter and the deceased after a helicopter crashed in the Førdefjorden in October 1996.[3]
Footnotes
- Emberland, Torkil (19 May 2014). "Den kan brukes til alt fra skattejakt til oljeleting, og kan bli din for 20 millioner". Nordlys (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 May 2014.
- https://gisis.imo.org/Public/SHIPS/ShipDetails.aspx?IMONumber=8019409
- Official Norwegian Defence Force website: Over 5,000 graves found Archived 2004-01-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Norwegian)
- Tor Leif Pedersen (27 February 2007). "- Tonnevis med kvikksølv ikke funnet". Bergens Tidende (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- Lawson, Siri Holm. "D/S Prinsesse Ragnhild". Warsailors.com. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- "Sunken WWII ship found in fjord". BBC News. 5 March 2008. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- "Oppdaget ny koralldyrart utenfor Bodø". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). 3 May 2001. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to IMO 8019409. |
- Video from HNoMS Tyr (in Norwegian)
- Another video from HNoMS Tyr (in Norwegian)