HNoMS Stavanger (F303)

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 & 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 & 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)

HNoMS Stavanger (pennant number F303) was an Oslo-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy.^[1] Her namesake comes from the Norwegian city of Stavanger.^[1]

Stavanger was decommissioned in 1998.^[1] 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).^[1]