HMS Sirius (F40)
1966 Type 12I or Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Sirius.
HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN) built by H.M. Dockyard Portsmouth, and was the penultimate RN warship to be built there for a period of forty years, until Vosper Thornycroft built HMS Clyde. Sirius was launched on 22 September 1964 and commissioned on 15 June 1966. The ship continued in front line service until February 1992.
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Name | HMS Sirius |
Builder | HMNB Portsmouth |
Laid down | 9 August 1963 |
Launched | 22 September 1964 |
Commissioned | 15 June 1966 |
Decommissioned | 27 February 1993 |
Identification | F40 |
Motto | Heaven's light our guide |
Fate | Sunk as target 1998 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
Length | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
Complement | 223 |
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