HMS Tenby (F65)

HMS Tenby (F65)
HMS Tenby (F65)
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
Identification:	Pennant number: F65
Fate:	Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up; Sold for scrapping in 1977
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:	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 x twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6; 1 x twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG, later; 1 x single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7; ; 2 x Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10; 12 x 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped);

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Tenby.

HMS Tenby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. By the early 1970s, in the latter part of her career, she was one of four Frigates whch formed the Dartmouth Training Squadron and was used for the training of Royal Navy Officer Cadets. 3 at any one time plus one in turn in refit. Three 12 week training cruises were carried out per year to coincide with the training programme of B.R.N.C. Dartmouth. 40 cadets were embarked in each ship.

Use in popular culture[]

The fake funeral of James Bond in the 1967 movie You Only Live Twice was filmed onboard this ship, which was near Gibraltar at that time. In the movie, it was supposed to be in Hong Kong.

Commanding Officers[]

From	To	Captain
1957	1957	Commander W R D Gerrard-Pearse RN
1959	1961	Commander D E Parker RN
1962	1963	Captain T Lewin DSC RN
1964		Captain Dalrymple-Hamilton RN, Captain (F) Dartmouth Training Squadron

References[]

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.
Marriot, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd, Surrey.

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