HMS Blackpool (F77)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Blackpool
Ordered:	6 March 1951
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Laid down:	20 December 1954
Launched:	14 February 1957
Commissioned:	14 August 1958
Out of service:	Loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966–1971
Identification:	Pennant number: F77
Fate:	Sold for scrapping in 1978
General characteristics
Class & 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 & 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:	1 × twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG, later; 1 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10 12 × 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped)

HMS Blackpool was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy.

Service history

Blackpool was leader of the 6th Frigate Squadron between 1958 and 1960.^[1] Between 1964 and 1966 she was leader of the 28th Escort Squadron.^[2]

She was subsequently loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966 and 1971. In 1969, Blackpool was present at the Melbourne-Evans collision.

Commanding officers

See also

• Frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy

References

1. ↑ Royal Navy Senior Appointments, Colin Mackie
2. ↑ Royal Navy Senior Appointments, Colin Mackie

Publications

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 

Whitby-class frigates  Royal Navy Torquay Whitby Scarborough Tenby Eastbourne Blackpool  Indian Navy Trishul Talwar  Royal New Zealand Navy Blackpool Preceded by: Blackwood class Followed by: Salisbury class List of frigates of the Royal Navy List of frigates of the Indian Navy