Frigate HMS Whitby (F36)
Basic information
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Status:
Fate:
Sold for scrapping in 1979
Ship measurements
Displacement:
2,600 t
Length:
112.8 m
Length (waterline):
109.7 m
Beam (waterline):
12.5 m
Draft:
5.18 m
Machine
Propulsion:
- 2 * Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- 2 * English Electric steam turbines
- 2 * shafts
- 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed:
30 knots
Range:
370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Personnel
Complement:
225
Combat assets
Electronics:
As build:
- Radar Type 293Q target indication
- Radar Type 277Q height finding
- Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
- Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG
- Radar Type 974 navigation
- Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
- Sonar Type 174 search
- Sonar Type 162 target classification
- Sonar Type 170 attack
Later:
- Radar Type 993 target indication
- Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
- Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG
- Radar Type 978 navigation
- Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
- Sonar Type 174 search
- Sonar Type 162 target classification
- Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament:
- 1 * twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6
- 1 * twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG (later 1 * single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7)
- 2 * Limbo anti-submarine mortar Mark 10
- 12 * 21-inch (533 mm) anti-submarine torpedo tubes (later removed)
HMS Whitby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom built by Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead. She was launched on 2 July 1954 and commissioned on 10 July 1956.
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