HDMS Niels Juel (F354)

	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 1980
Decommissioned	18 August 2009
Identification	Callsign: OUER; Pennant number: F354;
Fate	Scrapped, 2013
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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	25,700 shp (19,200 kW) gas turbine ; 4,800 bhp (3,600 kW) on diesel engine;
Propulsion	1 × General Electric gas turbine; 1 × MTU diesel engine;
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	Harpoon SSM; Sea Sparrow SAM VLS; Stinger SAM; Oto Melara 76 mm gun; several heavy machine guns and a number of depth charges;

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.

Design

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 1980.

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

Gallery

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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Wertheim (ed.), Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, p. 154
^ "NIELS JUEL (1980- ), Corvette". navalhistory.dk. Retrieved 2020-12-03.