Ships
Five frigates of this class were built. All of them were modernized during the period 1987–1990. They bear the prefix KNM (Kongelig Norske Marine, meaning Royal Norwegian Navy) in Norwegian and HNoMS (His Norwegian Majesty's Ship) in English.
| Name | Pennant number |
Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oslo | F300 | January 17, 1964 | January 29, 1966 | Sank in 1994 |
| Bergen | F301 | August 23, 1965 | June 22, 1967 | August 3, 2005 |
| Trondheim | F302 | September 4, 1964 | June 2, 1966 | June 2006 |
| Stavanger | F303 | February 4, 1966 | December 8, 1967 | June, 1998 |
| Narvik | F304 | January 8, 1965 | November 30, 1966 | August 1, 2007 |
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