HMS Blackpool (F77) | |
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Career (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 long ton (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: |
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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Blackpool.
HMS Blackpool was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy. Blackpool was loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966 and 1971. In 1969, Blackpool was present at the Melbourne-Evans collision.
See also[]
References[]
- 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.
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