HMS Tenby (F65)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Tenby
Ordered: 6 March 1951
Builder: Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead
Laid down: 23 June 1953
Launched: 4 October 1955
Commissioned: 18 December 1957
Decommissioned: 1972
Fate: Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up
Sold for scrapping in 1977
General characteristics
Class and type: Whitby-class frigate
Displacement: 2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes)
2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes)
Length: 360 ft (109.7 m) w/l
370 ft (112.8 m) o/a
Beam: 41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught: 17 ft (5.18 m)
Propulsion: Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h)
Range: 370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 152, later 225
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar Type 293Q target indication, later;
    • Radar Type 993
  • Radar Type 277Q height finding (later removed)
  • Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
  • Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG
  • Radar Type 974 navigation
  • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
  • Sonar Type 174 search
  • Sonar Type 162 target classification
  • Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament:

HMS Tenby (F65) was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.

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