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Hjӕlperen (LSM 500) Class: Photographs


These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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Danish Hjӕlperen (LSM 500)

In her original configuration probably soon after her arrival in Europe in 1953. The destroyer astern is the Norwegian Stord (British S-class), which was broken up in 1959.

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Danish Hjӕlperen (LSM 500) circa 1953
Danish Hjӕlperen (A563)

Shown wearing her NATO hull number and with the two single 40mm guns that replaced the original two 40mm twins in 1958.

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Danish Hjӕlperen (LSM 500) after 1958
Danish Hjӕlperen (A563)

In 1968 after her 1966-67 modernization.

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Danish Hjӕlperen (LSM 500) in 1968