Sleipner class corvette

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F 310 KNM «Sleipner»
General characteristics
Displacement:	600t standard 780 t full load
Length:	69.00 m
Beam:	8.00 m
Draught:	2.50 m
Propulsion:	4 x MTU diesels totalling 9000bhp
Speed:	21 kn max
Range:	N/A
Complement:	92
Armament:	1 x 76 mm gun 1 x 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun 1 x Kongsberg Terne III MK 8 6-tube ASW 6 x 12.75"(324 mm) Mk32 Sting Ray torpedo tubes in triple mountings
Radar:	SQS36 air search
Sonar:	N/A
Miscellaneous:	2 x Mark 36 SRBOC chaff/decoy launchers

The Sleipner-class corvette was a part of the Royal Norwegian Navy's 1960 fleet plan. It was intended to build 5 ships of the class, but because of economical problems only two were built. These were F 310 KNM «Sleipner» and F 311 KNM «Æger». Sleipner was built by Nylands Mek. verksted, Oslo and Æger by Akers Mek. verksted, Oslo and handed over to the RNoN between 1965-1967. Both ships went through a modernization program in 1988, the ships were then used as cadet training ships. They were decommissioned in 1992.

[edit] Ship list

Sleipner class

#	Name	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned
F 311	KNM Sleipner	1963	1963	1965	1992
F 310	KNM Æger	1964	1965	1967	1992

[edit] See also

• List of Royal Norwegian Navy ships
• Royal Norwegian Navy
• Corvette
• Video: F 310 KNM «Sleipner» sunk as a target ship by a Ula-Class submarine.