HMNZS Otago (F111)
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| Career (New Zealand (RNZN)) |  |
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| Name: | HMNZS Otago |
| Namesake: | Otago Province |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company Woolston, Hampshire |
| Launched: | 11 December 1958 [1] |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 1960 [2] |
| Decommissioned: | 7 November 1983 |
| Fate: | Sold and broken up, 1987 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Rothesay Class Type 12 Frigate |
| Displacement: | 2,144 tonnes standard 2,577 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 370 ft (113 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draught: | 17.4 ft (5 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft double-reduction geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 400 tons oil fuel, 5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Complement: | originally 219, later 240 |
| Armament: | 2 × 4.5 in (110 mm) guns 1 × 40 mm gun 1 × quad Sea Cat missile launcher 2 × Limbo anti-submarine mortars 12 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (later replaced by 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) Mk.32 torpedo tubes) |
HMNZS Otago (F111) was a Rothesay Class Type 12 Frigate, acquired from the Royal Navy before completion. She was launched on 11 December 1958 by Princess Margaret,[1] and was commissioned into the Royal New Zealand Navy on 22 June 1960.
She was named after the province of Otago in New Zealand, on the South Island and associated with the city of Dunedin.
[edit] Operational history
Otago took part in various SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) deployments, and took part, with HMAS Supply in support and succeeded by HMNZS Canterbury, in a protest against French nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll in 1973.
Otago become the RNZN training ship in 1981, and paid off into inactive reserve in November 1983. The vessel was sold for scrap in 1987 and broken up in Auckland.
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