Glad no fatalities and hope the injuries are minor but that is going to be very very expensive. Those ships are very similar to the F-100 and the Hobarts, I wonder if there are any design issues that contributed to the catastrophic damage or whether it was just the physics of the collision.
At least he had the calmness of mind to order its Beaching or it would be sitting on the bottom of the Fjord.
That’s a catastrophic situation and will result in a lengthy time out of service.
It looks like it would have sunk if it was in open water.
She’s been hit on her starboard side which doesn’t sound good for the bridge team, you could hardly miss the Sola TS from viewing her photo, she’s a VLCC
That's because the Norwegian govt never purchased a spare parts package for the vessels, one of the frigates Otto Sverdrup is basically a parts hulk, she's been stripped of parts to keep the others running. Now there will only be 3 functional Nansens, I guess they will have to work out which one to reactivate, the partially sunk one or the parts hulk.
Got started at #12421 probably because there isn't a Royal Norwegian Navy thread. The ship has now sunk so if further discussion is to be made, the next poster should create one.
Photos show only the Radar Mast above water, got there work cut out for them and a Norwegian Winter fast approaching.
Those pics show that it will be unlikely for the ship to ever re-enter service, I suspect they’ll write her off. The cost of refit could possibly exceed the new build cost despite the Norwegian shipyards being very capable.
Surely a write off. I can't imagine much of the machinery or electronics would be salvageable.
But the ABs machinery spaces weren’t catastrophically breached.
