Type 16 frigate

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Type 16
General Characteristics (particulars for T class conversion)
Displacement:	1,800 tons standard / 2,300 tons full load
Length:	362.75 ft o/a
Beam:	37.75 ft
Draught:	14.5 ft
Propulsion:	2 x Admiralty three-drum boilers, steam turbines, 2 shafts, 40,000 shp
Speed:	32 knots full load
Complement:	175
Armament:	1 x twin 4 in gun Mark 19 1 x twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5 5 x single 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.9 2 x Squid A/S mortar 1 x 4 x tubes for 21 in torpedo Mark 9
Radar:	Type 293Q target indication, Type 974 navigation Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
Sonar:	Type 146B search Type 147 depth finder Type 162 target classification Type 174 attack

The Type 16 frigates were a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers that had been rendered obsolescent by rapid advances in technology. They were similar in concept to the Type 15 frigate, but were a far more limited and useful design rendered necessary by budget constraints.

[edit] Ships

10 ships were converted, between 1949 and 1954.

Name	Pennant	Converted by	Fate
O and P-class conversion
Orwell	F98	Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1952	Broken up, 1965
Paladin	F169	Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1954	Broken up, 1962
Petard	F56	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	Broken up, 1967
T-class conversion
Teazer	F23	Mountstart Dry Docks, Cardiff, 1953-1954	Broken up, 1965
Tenacious	F44	Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1951-1952	Broken up, 1965
Termagant	F189	Grayson Rollo, Birkenhead, 1952-1953	Broken up, 1965
Terpsichore	F19	J. I. Thornycroft, Woolston, 1953-1954	Broken up, 1966
Tumult	F121	Grayson Rollo, Birkenhead, 1949-1950	Broken up, 1965
Tuscan	F156	Mountstart Dry Docks, Cardiff, 1949-1950	Broken up, 1966
Tyrian	F67	Harland & Wolff, Liverpool & Gordon Klison, Birkenhead, 1951-1953	Broken up, 1965

Ex-O class destroyers of the Pakistan Navy Onslow / Tippu Sultan and Onslaught / Tughril were returned to the UK between 1957 and 1959 to be converted along the lines of the Type 16 frigate.

[edit] See also

War Emergency Programme destroyers: The destroyer building programme that the Type 16 frigates were converted from
Type 15 frigate a more extensive conversion of destroyer hulls than the Type 16