Specifications
Displacement:
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1,535 tons full load
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Dimensions:
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94.5 x 10.7 x 4.7 meters (310 x 35 x 15.5
feet)
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Propulsion:
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1 shaft;
1 Parsons or English Electric geared steam turbine, 2 Babcock and Wilcox
boilers, 15,000 shp;
25 knots
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Crew:
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140
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Aviation
Surface Action
Guns:
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None.
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Radar:
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Type 974 navigation
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Air Defence
Guns:
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3 - 40mm/60 Mk.9 single mounts
(aft mount later removed due to exposed location)
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Missiles:
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None.
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Radar:
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Type 291 air warning
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Fire Control:
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None.
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Undersea Warfare
Armament:
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2 Mk.NC 10 Limbo 3-barreled
ASW mortars
2 21" torpedo tube twin mounts (BLACKWOOD, EXMOUTH, MALCOLM, and PALLISER
only, later removed)
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Sonar:
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Type 174 medium range search
Type 170 attack sonar for Limbo
Type 162 bottom search
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Electronic
Warfare
Attack:
ESM:
ComInt:
Ships:
Name
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Pendant
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Completed
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Comments
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Fate
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BLACKWOOD |
F 78
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1957
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Scrapped 1976.
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DUNCAN
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F 80
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1958
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Harbour training ship 1977.
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DUNDAS
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F 48
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1956
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Disposed 1979.
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EXMOUTH
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F 84
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1957
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Test platform for Rolls Royce Olympus
and Proteus gas turbines.
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Scrapped 1979.
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GRAFTON
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F 51
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1957
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Scrapped 1971.
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HARDY
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F 54
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1955
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Harbour training ship 1971.
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Scrapped 1979.
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KEPPEL
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F 85
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1956
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Scrapped 1979.
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MALCOLM
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F 88
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1957
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Scrapped 1978.
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MURRAY
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F 91
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1956
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Disposed 1970.
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PALLISER
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F 94
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1957
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Disposed 1979.
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PELLEW
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F 62
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1956
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Disposed 1971.
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RUSSEL
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F 97
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1957
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Harbour training ship 1971.
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Photos:
(click on thumbnail for bigger image)
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Forward-port
quarter view of DUNDAS. Out of service in this photo, she is riding high
out of the water. M.D. Thomas photo. |
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Aft-starboard
quarter view of EXMOUTH. The two 3-barrelled Limbo mortars can be seen, as
well as the loading hatches for the aft mount on the inboard bulkhead. M.D.
Thomas photo.
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Aft-port
quarter view of GRAFTON. M.D. Thomas photo.
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Broadside
view od HARDY. Although out of commission and partially stripped, this view
shows to good effect the lines of the hull of this class of ship. M.D. Thomas
photo.
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A good forward-starboard
quarter view of KEPPEL. The Type 291 air warning (upper) and 974 navigation
(lower) radars can be seen on the mast in this photo. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A nice bow view of RUSSELL.
M.D. Thomas photo.
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This view of RUSSELL's port quarterdeck
is looking aft, with the port Limbo in the background. M.D. Thomas
photo.
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RUSSELL's port quarterdeck is
taken just aft of midships, looking forward. The flare of the bow can
be seen to good effect to the left of the photo. M.D. Thomas photo.
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RUSSELL again, taken at the break
down to the quarterdeck on the port side, with the ship's boat in the foreground.
The port 40mm mount is mounted at the rear corner of the superstructure.
M.D. Thomas photo.
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