Frigate HMS Scarborough (F63)
Basic information
Namesake:
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England.
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Fate:
Sold for scrapping in 1977
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:
- 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 (later Radar type 978)
- 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 Scarborough was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. She was named after the town of Scarborough in the county of North Yorkshire.
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