HMS PLYMOUTH IN DOCK 2

HMS PLYMOUTH A BRITISH TYPE 12 A/S FRIGATE 1959

FWD PORT QTR VEIW -------- AFT PORT QTR VEIW

A CLOSE UP VEIW OF THE BRIDGE AREA

DETAIL OF MIDSHIPS BULKHEAD WORK RQD ---------- AFT VEIW WITH PARTS THAT NEED UPGRADE

OVERHEAD VEIW OF BASIC BOW DETAILS ( MUCH TO BE UPGRADED )

BOW OVERHEAD VEIW --------- STERN OVERHEAD VEIW

PORT SIDE BASIC DETAIL WORKS SO FAR

BOW VEIW ----------- STERN VEIW

STD VEIW OF WORK SO FAR

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Name: HMS Plymouth
Builder: Devonport Dockyard Plymouth
Laid down: 1 July 1958
Launched: 20 July 1959
Commissioned: 11 May 1961
Decommissioned: 28 April 1988

Identification: Pennant number: F126

Fate: Illegally Scrapped October 2014

General characteristics

Class and type: Rothesay-class frigate

Displacement:

2,150 tons standard
2,560 tons full load

Length: 370 ft (110 m)
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)
Draught: 17.3 ft (5.3 m)

Installed power: 30,000 shp (22,000 kW)

Propulsion:

Y-100 plant
Two Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Two English Electric steam turbines
Two shafts

Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)

Range: 400 tons oil fuel, 5,200 nautical miles (9,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)

Complement: 152, later 225, modified to 235

Sensors and
processing systems:

Electronics (as built):

Radar Type 293Q target indication
Radar Type 277Q height finding
Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
Radar Type 974 navigation
Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
Sonar Type 174 search
Sonar Type 162 target classification
Sonar Type 170 attack

Electronics (as modified 1969):

Radar Type 993 target indication
Radar Type 903 fire control on director MRS3
Radar Type 978 navigation
Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
Sonar Type 177 search
Sonar Type 162 target classification
Sonar Type 170 attack

Armament:

Armament (as built):

1 × twin 4.5in gun Mark 6
1 × 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7
2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10

12 × 21-in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped)

Armament (as modified 1969):

1 × twin 4.5in gun Mark 6
1 × Sea Cat GWS-20 SAM
2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
1 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10
2 × 8-barrel 3in Knebworth/Corvus countermeasures launchers

Aircraft carried: Wasp helicopter

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There is controversy about how the sale was conducted by The Peel Group and the clauses included in their sale contract with the dismantlers

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