NoCGV Harstad

NoCGV Harstad moored in Harstad
Career (Norway)
Class and type:	offshore patrol vessel
Name:	NoCGV Harstad
Commissioned:	January 2005
General characteristics
Displacement:	3,121 long tons (3,171 t)
Length:	270 ft (82 m)
Beam:	51 ft (16 m)
Propulsion:	Two Rolls-Royce Marine diesel engines, 4000kW each Two screws; one azimuth thruster, 883kW
Speed:	18.4 knots (21.2 mph; 34.1 km/h)
Complement:	26
Armament:	40 mm Bofors
Notes:	Crane: 15m/5 tons Modified to support the Nato Submarine Rescue System

NoCGV Harstad is a purpose-built offshore patrol vessel for the Norwegian Coast Guard. She is named after the city Harstad in Northern Norway.

Harstad was built as a multipurpose vessel, but optimised for emergency towing of large oil tankers (up to 200,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT)), oil spill clean-up and fire fighting. The most common duty will be fishery inspection and search and rescue in Norway's large exclusive economic zone. The steadily increasing traffic of large oil tankers along the Norwegian coast explains the need for this type of vessel.

See also

• ICGV Þór
• Barentshav class OPV

External links

• Rolls-Royce article about KV Harstad
• Article from Offshore Shipping Online
• Armed Forces: KV Harstad fire fighting; Norwegian)
• Article from the Norwegian Armed Forces with specifications (in Norwegian)