HMS Torquay (F43)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 HMS Torquay at sea |
|
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | ? |
| Laid down: | March 11, 1953 |
| Launched: | July 1, 1954 |
| Commissioned: | 10 May 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1987 |
| Struck: | |
| Motto: | ? |
- This is a page about an invidivual ship, for background information please see: Whitby class frigate
HMS Torquay (F43) was a Type 12 Whitby class frigate of the Royal Navy. They were the first frigate to have the "V" form hull which is certainly the most outstanding small warship design of the 20th century. This evolutionally design made it possible to be driven in head sea without the usual slamming which occurs with conventional destroyers of the time. Each Frigate cost 3.5 million pounds and the first ship completed was HMS Torquay in May 1956.
Torquay was launched by Lady Monkton and participated in the Suez operation in 1956. In 1958 she was diverted to Tobruk following the assassination of he Iraqi Royal Family. Between 1967 and 1973 Torquay served as a Navigation Training Ship at Portsmouth and in 1974 was refitted to undertake trials of CAAIS- Computer Assisted Action Information System. Torquay attended the 1977 Silver Jubilee Fleet Review off Spithead. Having been replaced by Leander Class Frigate Juno, Torquay paid off on March 31 1985, the longest serving ship of her class. She was sold for scrapping in 1987 and left Portsmouth on July 1 1987 for breaking up in at Barcelona in Spain.
| Whitby-class frigate |
|
Blackpool | Eastbourne | Scarborough | Tenby | Torquay | Whitby |
| List of frigates of the Royal Navy |
