HMS Tenby (F65)
1957 Type 12 or Whitby-class frigate of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with 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.
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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 |
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Class and type | Whitby-class frigate |
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Beam | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
Draught | 17 ft (5.18 m) |
Propulsion | Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & 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 |
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