# Tanker Sola and Norwegian navy frigate Helga Ingstad collide off Norway

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**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tanker-sola-and-norwegian-navy-frigate-helga-ingstad-collide-off-norway/49684 "2018-11-08T08:33:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/tanker-sola-and-norwegian-navy-frigate-helga-ingstad-collide-off-norway/49684/429 "2018-12-06T21:52:30Z")

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> [@ombugge](#):
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> Apparently the HI also had stabiliser fins extended (for whatever reason on an inshore passage).  
> Can’t remember where I saw this, but it struck me as odd that a warship of this type have stabilisers. (Yet alone that they were extended)  
> I wrote it off as journalistic ignorance, but can anybody confirm, or disprove??

If so one reason could be to have a more stable platform for gunnery control but why in a fjord close to land? The other is to prevent glasses from sliding of the tables.

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