HMS Llandaff (F61)

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Career (UK) RN Ensign
Name: HMS Llandaff (F61)
Builder: Hawthorn Leslie and Company
Laid down: 27 August 1953
Launched: 30 November 1955
Fate: Transferred to the Bangladeshi Navy 10 December 1976
General characteristics
Class and type: Salisbury class frigate
Displacement: 2,170 tons standard
2,400 tons full load
Length: 340 ft (100 m) o/a
Beam: 40 ft (12 m)
Draught: 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Propulsion: 8 × ASR1 diesels, 12,400 shp, 2 shafts
Speed: 24 kn (44 km/h)
Range: 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 16 kn (30 km/h)
Complement: 235
Sensors and
processing systems:
Type 960 air search radar, later Type 965 AKE-2
Type 293Q target indication radar, later Type 993n
Type 982 aircraft direction radar, laterType 986
Type 277Q height finding radar, later Type 278
Type 974 navigation radarlater Type 978
Type 285 fire control radar on director Mark 6M
Type 262 fire control on STAAG mount
Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
Type 174 search sonar
Type 170 attack sonar
Armament: 1 × twin 4.5 in gun Mark 6
1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun STAAG Mark 2, later 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5
1 × Squid A/S mortar

HMS Llandaff (F61) was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for the district of Llandaff in Cardiff, Wales.

She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Hebburn on the River Tyne, launched in 1955 and completed in 1958.

Llandaff transferred to the Bangladeshi Navy at Royal Albert Dock, London December 10, 1976.