HMS Malcolm (F88)
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| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Malcolm |
| Namesake: | Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, GCB and GCMG |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun |
| Laid down: | 1 February 1954 |
| Launched: | 18 October 1955 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1957 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,180 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 1,456 tons |
| Length: | 310 ft 0 in (94.5 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Babcock & Wilcox 550psi boilers were fitted with two English Electric steam turbines producing a total of 15000shp on one shaft |
| Speed: | 28 knots |
| Range: | 5,200 nmi (9,630 km) at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 140 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Radar: Type 978 navigation Sonar: Type 162 target classification Sonar: Type 170 attack Sonar: Type 174 search |
| Armament: | 3 × 40mm Mk9 Bofors guns in single mountings 4 × 21" torpedo tubes in twin mountings 2 × Limbo Anti-submarine mortars |
HMS Malcolm (F88) was a Blackwood-class anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy, commissioned on 12 December 1957 and decommissioned in 1978. She the second ship to be borne Malcolm and was named after Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm and was, as of 2008, the final ship of that name.
[edit] The Cod Wars
Just after she was commissioned, a dispute started in the North Atlantic. Relations between the United Kingdom and Iceland deteriorated and there was concern that the Landhelgisgæsla (the Icelandic Coast Guard) might threaten British fishermen.
HMS Malcolm was part of a five-ship group that was deployed to Iceland for "fishery protection duties" in what became known as the Cod Wars. She operated out of Edinburgh during the first Cod War[1], and from Rosyth after that.[2]
In December 1970, Kevin McNamara MP raised concerns that HMS Malcolm would not be replaced by another frigate after its return to home waters, stressing that Malcolm's medical support was essential to fishing operations off Iceland. The Ministry of Defence decided not to immediately replace Malcolm, probably because the situation had calmed somewhat (1970 was between the first and second Cod Wars). Responsibility for supporting the fishing fleet was henceforth the Department of Trade and Industry's.[3]
The dispute ended in 1976 in a face-saving treaty and victory for Iceland. Two years later, HMS Malcolm was decommissioned. She was considered too small to act as a modern frigate and therefore unable to continue service into the 1980s.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.stfaith.com/october03.htm The Parish Magazine of St. Faith, Havant with St. Nicholas, Langstone
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hmsmanxman/life/brad/brad.htm H.M.S. MANXMAN
- ^ http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1970/dec/18/fishing-fleet-icelandic-waters#S5CV0808P0-08309 Fishing Fleet, Icelandic Waters
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