HNoMS Stavanger (F303)

For other ships with the same name, see HNoMS Stavanger.

HNoMS Stavanger (pennant number F303) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Her namesake comes from the Norwegian city of Stavanger.

Norwegian frigate Stavanger (F303).
History
Norway
Name	Stavanger
Ordered	1960
Builder	Navy Main Yard, Karljohansvern, Horten, Norway
Launched	4 February 1966
Commissioned	8 December 1967
Decommissioned	June 1998
Identification	F303
Fate	Expended as a target 2001
General characteristics
Class and type	Oslo-class frigate
Displacement	1,450 long tons (1,473 t) standard 1,745 long tons (1,773 t) full load
Length	96.6 m (316 ft 11 in)
Beam	11.2 m (36 ft 9 in)
Draft	5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	Twin steam boilers, one high pressure and one low pressure steam turbine, 20,000 hp (14,914 kW)
Speed	25 knots (29 mph; 46 km/h)
Range	4,500 nautical miles at 15 knots (8,300 km at 28 km/h)
Complement	120 (129 max) officers and men
Sensors and processing systems	Siemens/Plessey AWS-9 long range air search radar Racal DeccaTM 1226 surface search radar in I band Kongsberg MSI-90(U) tracking and fire control system Raytheon Mk 95; I/J-band search and track radar for Sea Sparrow Medium frequency Thomson-CSF Sintra/Simrad TSM 2633 combined hull and VDS active sonar High frequency Terne III active sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	4 × Mark 36 SRBOC chaff launchers ESM: AR 700 suite
Armament	2 × 3 in (76 mm) cannon 1 × Bofors 40mm/70 anti-aircraft gun 2 × 20 mm Rheinmetall anti-aircraft guns 2 × 12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns 6 × Penguin SSMs (usually not mounted) 1 × 8-cell Raytheon RIM-7M Sea Sparrow Mk 29 SAM system 6 × Kongsberg Terne ASW rocket-thrown depth charges 2 × triple 324 mm (12.8 in) Mark 32 torpedo tubes (Sting Ray torpedoes)

Stavanger was decommissioned in 1998. She was later used for target practice and sunk in 2001 by a single DM2A3 torpedo launched from the Ula-class submarine Utstein (pennant number S302).