Type 16 frigate
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| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Operators: |  Royal Navy |
| Built: | 1949–1954 |
| In commission: | 1951–1967 |
| Completed: | 10 |
| General characteristics for T-class conversion |
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| Type: | Anti-submarine Frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,800 long tons (1,800 t) standard 2,300 long tons (2,300 t) full load |
| Length: | 362 ft 9 in (110.57 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 37 ft 9 in (11.51 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers Steam turbines, 40,000 shp 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) full load |
| Complement: | 175 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
• Type 293Q target indication Radar • Type 974 navigation Radar • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF • Type 146B search Sonar • Type 147 depth finder Sonar • Type 162 target classification Sonar • Type 174 attack Sonar |
| Armament: | • 1 × twin 4 in gun Mark 19 • 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.5 • 5 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mk.9 • 2 × Squid A/S mortar • 1 × quad 21 in (533 mm) tubes for Mk.9 torpedoes |
The Type 16 frigates were a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers that had been rendered obsolete by rapid advances in technology. They were similar in concept to the Type 15 frigate, but were a far more limited design rendered necessary by budget constraints.
[edit] Ships
| Name | Pennant | Converted by | Fate |
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| O and P-class conversion | |||
| Orwell | F98 | Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1952 | Broken up, 1965 |
| Paladin | F169 | Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1954 | Broken up, 1962 |
| Petard | F56 | Harland & Wolff, Belfast, 1953-1955 | Broken up, 1967 |
| T-class conversion | |||
| Teazer | F23 | Mountstart Dry Docks, Cardiff, 1953-1954 | Broken up, 1965 |
| Tenacious | F44 | Royal Dockyard, Rosyth, 1951-1952 | Broken up, 1965 |
| Termagant | F189 | Grayson Rollo, Birkenhead, 1952-1953 | Broken up, 1965 |
| Terpsichore | F19 | J. I. Thornycroft, Woolston, Hampshire, 1953-1954 | Broken up, 1966 |
| Tumult | F121 | Grayson Rollo, Birkenhead, 1949-1950 | Broken up, 1965 |
| Tuscan | F156 | Mountstart Dry Docks, Cardiff, 1949-1950 | Broken up, 1966 |
| Tyrian | F67 | Harland & Wolff, Liverpool & Gordon Alison, Birkenhead, 1951-1953 |
Broken up, 1965 |
Ex-O class destroyers of the Pakistan Navy Onslow / Tippu Sultan and Onslaught / Tughril were returned to the UK between 1957 and 1959 to be converted along the lines of the Type 16 frigate.
[edit] See also
- War Emergency Programme destroyers: The destroyer building programme that the Type 16 frigates were converted from
- Type 15 frigate a more extensive conversion of destroyer hulls than the Type 16
[edit] Bibliography
- "Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983" Leo Marriot, Ian Allan, 1983, ISBN 0-7110-1322-5
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