Preceded by:
Tenacious (Type 16) (1952)Succeeded by:
Whitby (Type 12) (1956) | |
| Class | Blackwood |
| Type | Frigate |
| Year | 1956 |
| Crew | 140 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 91.4 m (pp) 94.5 m |
| Beam | 10.7 m |
| Draught | 4.7 m |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 1,180 t |
| Loaded | 1,535 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 50 km/h |
| Range | 8,334 km @ 22 km/h |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 1 |
| Turbines | 2 x Geared steam 15,000 hp Various |
| Boilers | 2 x Babcock & Wilcox |
| Fuel | Oil |
| Armament | |
| Anti-Aircraft | 3 x 40-mm (3 x 1) QF Bofors L/60 |
| Torpedo tubes | 4 x 533-mm (2 x 2) |
| Anti-Sub | Limbo Mk. 10 (2 x 3) |
| Armor | |
| Armor | None |
| Sensors | |
| Radar | Type 291 Type 974 |
| Sonar | Type 162 Type 170 Type 174 |
| Production | |
| Built | 12 |
| Total | 15 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
|
Blackwood | F78 | Thornycroft | 14/09/1953 | 04/10/1955 | 22/08/1957 | 1976 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Duncan | F80 | Thornycroft | 17/12/1953 | 30/05/1957 | 21/10/1958 | 1977 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Dundas | F48 | White | 17/10/1952 | 25/09/1953 | 09/03/1956 | 1980 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Exmouth | F84 | White | 24/03/1954 | 16/11/1955 | 20/12/1957 | 1979 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Grafton | F51 | White | 25/02/1953 | 13/09/1954 | 11/01/1957 | 04/1969 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Hardy | F54 | Yarrow | 04/02/1953 | 25/11/1953 | 15/12/1955 | 1971 | Sunk as target | |
|
Keppel | F85 | Yarrow | 27/03/1953 | 31/08/1954 | 06/07/1956 | 1979 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Malcolm | F88 | Yarrow | 01/02/1954 | 18/10/1955 | 12/12/1957 | 1978 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Murray | F91 | Stephen | 30/11/1957 | 22/02/1955 | 05/06/1956 | 1970 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Palliser | F94 | Stephen | 15/03/1955 | 10/05/1956 | 13/12/1957 | 1980 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Pellew | F62 | Swan Hunter | 05/11/1953 | 29/09/1954 | 26/07/1956 | 1971 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Russell | F97 | Swan Hunter | 11/11/1953 | 10/12/1954 | 07/02/1957 | 1971 | Sold/Scrapped | |
| Khukri / Blackwood: | |||||||||
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Khukri † | F49 | White | 29/12/1955 | 20/11/1956 | 16/07/1958 | 09/12/1971 | † | Loss by submarine |
|
Kirpan | F44 | Stephen | 05/11/1956 | 19/08/1958 | 07/1959 | 1978 | Inactive | |
|
Kuthar | F46 | White | 19/09/1957 | 14/10/1958 | 11/1959 | 1978 | Inactive | |
