STORM CLASS PATROL BOAT

Career	Royal Norwegian Navy Emblem
Ordered:	?
Laid down:	?
Launched:	1965-1967
Commissioned:	?
General Characteristics
Length	36,5 m (120 ft)
Beam	6,2 m (20 ft)
Draft	1,8 m
Displacement	138 tons
Propulsion	2 Maybach diesel engines (7200HP total)
Complement	19 men in Norwegian Navy 24 men in Latvian Navy
Armament	Penguin ship to ship missiles One 76 mm cannon One 40 mm canon
Speed	Over 30 knots
Sensors	?

The 'Storm class' fast patrol boats (FPB) were a class of 20 vessels built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. In Norwegian these boats were called ''missilkanonbåter'' (MKB) meaning boats with missiles and guns. They were operated by the Coastal Combat Flotilla together with the MTBs, or Missile Torpedo Boats. None of the boats are currently in service with the Royal Norwegian Navy. The design was Norwegian and all of the boats were built by Norwegian ship yards from 1965 to 1967.
At the end of the 1990s four vessels were sold to Lithuania and four were sold to Latvia.
The prototype Storm, completed May 31, 1963, was later scrapped and replaced by a second boat taking the same name and pennant number P960; the last of the class completed in 1968. After 1970 Penguin missiles were fitted to these boats in addition to the original armament.^[1]
Currently the Lithuanian Navy operates three Storm class boats, P31 "Dzūkas" (donated 1995), P32 "Sėlis" (transferred 2001) and P33 "Skalvis" (transferred 2001).^[2]

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Vessels

External link

Sources

Vessels

The vessels are listed with their pennant numbers in RNoN service:

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★ ''Arg'' ''P968''

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★ ''Blink'' ''P961'' Is on display, fully equipped at the Royal Norwegian Naval Museum in Horten, Norway.

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★ ''Brann'' ''P970''

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★ ''Brask'' ''P977'' Is on display on land at Haakonsvern Naval Base in Bergen.

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★ ''Brott'' ''P974''

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★ ''Djerv'' ''P966''

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★ ''Glimt'' ''P962''

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★ ''Gnist'' ''P979'' (1967-2000) Sold to the Latvian Navy and renamed LVNS Linga.

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★ ''Hvass'' ''P972'' (?-2000) Sold to the Latvian Navy and renamed LVNS Lode.

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★ ''Kjekk'' ''P965''

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★ ''Odd'' ''P975''

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★ ''Pil'' ''P976'' Previously used as a damage control and fire fighting training vessel. Placed on land at Haakonsvern Naval base.

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★ ''Rokk'' ''P978''

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★ ''Skjold]]'' ''P963''

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★ ''Skudd'' ''P967''

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★ ''Steil'' ''P969''

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★ ''Storm'' ''P960''

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★ ''Traust'' ''P973''

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★ ''Tross'' ''P971''

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★ ''Trygg'' ''P964''
Note: The Norwegian prefix for RNoN vessels is 'KNM'.

External link

★ Nice photo of Brask on land whith German, Danish, Polish and Norwegian FPB officers in front

Sources

1. Jane's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1979-80
2. Lithuanian Navy web page on the patrol boats


★ Information folder from Forsvarets rekrutterings- og mediesenter (Norwegian defence recruitment and media center) 1991/92

★ Article about Norwegian-Baltic naval cooperation (Norwegian)

★ LVNS Linga's home page