Technical Specs

Shipbuilder: Yarrow Shipbuilders Scotstoun
Propulsion: 2 x English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30000shp. 2 x Babcock & Wilcox 550psi boilers.
Launched: 22 December 1961
Built: 1963
Ship Type: Frigate
Tonnage: 2450 displ
Length: 372 feet
Breadth: 41 feet
Draught: 18 feet
Owner: Royal Navy
Status: Sunk – 1998

Main guns As built: 2 x Vickers 4.5″ in Mk6 turret (1 x 2)
Refitted:2 x 40mm (2 x 1)
Secondary guns As built: 2 x 40mm (2 x 1)
Refitted: None
Other weapons As built:
ASW: 1 x Mk10 Limbo AS mortar

Refitted:
ASW: 1 x Mk10 Limbo AS mortar / 1 x Ikara AS rocket
SAM: 8 x GWS22 SeaCat (2 x 4)
Countermeasures Type 182 towed decoy / Corvus decoy launchers
Aircraft 1 x Westland Wasp
Radar As built:
Type 903 tracking / Type 965 surveillance / Type 993 search / Type 978 navigation
Refitted:
Type 903 tracking / Type 993 search / Type 978 navigation /
Sonar Type 177 attack / Type 170B attack / Type 162 bottomed target / Type 199 VDS
Other As built: N/A
Refitted: ADAWS5 Ikara fire control / GWS22 SeaCat fire control
Cossor 1010 IFF interrogator / SCOT communications
Engines 2 x Babcock & Wilcox 550psi boilers
2 x English Electric steam turbines
Power output 30000shp
Speed 30kts
Shafts 2
Range 5300NM @ 12kts
Fuel 460 tons oil

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