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NoCGV Svalbard is documented in the equipment reference catalogue originating in Norway. It was built by Hull at Tangen Verft , Kragerø Outfitting at Langsten Tomrefjord.
NorwaySvalbard
Svalbard
Hull at Tangen Verft , Kragerø Outfitting at Langsten Tomrefjord
NOK 575 million USD 66.9 million
9 August 2000
17 February 2001
15 December 2001
Callsign : LBSV IMO number : 8640387 MMSI number : 259040000
In service
Offshore patrol vessel
6,375 tonnes
340.2 ft (103.7 m) (overall) 292 ft (89 m) (waterline)
62.6 ft (19.1 m)
21.3 ft (6.5 m)
27.2 ft (8.3 m)
Four Bergen BRG-8 diesel generators (4 × 3,390 kW)
Diesel-electric Two ABB Azipod VI1500A units (2 × 5 MW)
17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)
50 (20 officers and 45 other ranks split into 3 shifts with 2 shifts on board at any one time)
TRS-3D with IFF
57 mm gun 12.7 mm machine gun Can carry 1 Simbad surface-to-air missile system
Capacity for two helicopters; one Westland Lynx carried initially, NHIndustries NH90 from 2009
NoCGV Svalbard (W303) is a Norwegian Coast Guard icebreaker and offshore patrol vessel .
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
NoCGV Svalbard equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
NorwayCoast Guard exact named equipment holdings: Svalbard. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: PATROL AND COASTAL COMBATANTS / PSO. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Reported count for NoCGV Svalbard. Service scope: Outer Coast Guard; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: Norway. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for NoCGV Svalbard. Service scope: Outer Coast Guard; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: Norway. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.