Specifications
Displacement:
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2,700 tons full load
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Dimensions:
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109.7 x 12.9 x 4.0 meters (360 x 42.25 x
13.25 feet)
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Propulsion:
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1 shaft, COSAG;
1-Metropolitan-Vickers geared steam turbine, 1 Babcock and Wilcox boiler,
12,500 shp;
1-Metropolitan-Vickers gas turbine, 7,500 shp,
28 knots
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Crew:
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253
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Aviation
Helicopters:
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Deck and hangar for 1 light helicopter
(1 Wasp)
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Surface Action
Guns:
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2 - 4"/45 Mk.5 Vickers single mount
s
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Radar:
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Type 993 surface / low-level air search
Type 974 / 978 navigation
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Air Defence
Guns:
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2 - 4"/45 Mk.5 Vickers single
mounts
2 - 40mm/60 Mk.7 or 2 - 20mm single mounts
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Missiles:
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2 Seacat GWS21 quad launchers
SAM (ASHANTI, GURKHA, ZULU only)
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Radar:
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Type 965 AKE-1 long range air search
Type 993 surface / low-level air search
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Fire Control:
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Type 903 tracker for MRS3
CBRF for Seacat
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Undersea Warfare
Armament:
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1 Mk.NC 10 Limbo 3-barreled ASW mortar
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Sonar:
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Type 177 medium range search
Type 199 medium frequency variable depth sonar (Canadian SQS-505 VDS); (ASHANTI
and GURKHA only)
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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ASHANTI |
F 117
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1961
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Engineering training ship 1980. Sunk as target by HM submarines SCEPTRE &
SWIFTSURE.
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Sunk 1988.
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ESKIMO
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F 119
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1963
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Laid up 1979.
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Disposed, 1981.
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GURKHA
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F 122
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1963
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Laid up 1979, Recommissioned 1982,
Paid off 1984.
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Indonesian WILHELMUS ZAKARIAS YOHANNES,
1985.
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MOHAWK
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F 125
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1963
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Partial conversion to training
ship 1971 (abandonned), Laid up 1979.
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Scrapped 1982.
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NUBIAN
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F 131
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1962
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Laid up 1979, Disposed 1981, Royal
Marine training ship.
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Sunk as target.
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TARTAR
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F 133
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1962
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Laid up 1981, Recomissioned 1982,
Paid off 1984.
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Indonesian HASANUDDIN, 1986.
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ZULU
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F 124
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1964
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Laid up 1979, Recomissioned 1982,
Paid off 1984.
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Indonesian MARTHA KRISTINA TIYAHAHU,
1985
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Photos:
(click on thumbnail for bigger image)
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A starboard
side view of ASHANTI. M.D. Thomas photo. |
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Aft-starboard
quarter view of ASHANTI. The Seacat launcher seen over the aft gun is on
another ship tied up on the inside. A Type 199 VDS set is fitted to the stern.
ASHANTI's own starboard Seacat CRBF director is abreast the aft funnel on
a platform. M.D. Thomas photo.
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ESKIMO taken
from the forward port quarter. There is no Seacat or associated fire control
radars fitted in this photo. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A good aft
starboard quarter view of ESKIMO, again with no Seacat. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A view of GURKHA's
forward superstructure. The ship's two main guns were taken from paid off
Second World War era C class destroyers. The Type 903 tracker and MRS3 director
can be seen above the bridge, just below the Type 993 radar. The Type 965
AKE-1 "bedstead" radar is at the masthead, and the port Seacat quad launcher
is visible just forward of the break down to the quarterdeck, and the ship's
boat. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A Wasp helicopter on the landing
pad of NUBIAN, and the aft 4.5" gun. The landing pad was a lift that would
lower the helicopter into the hangar, and then form the roof of the hangar.
M.D. Thomas photo.
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TARTAR with a Wasp on deck. The
triple barrels of the Limbo ASW mortar can just be seen ahead of the helicopter.
M.D. Thomas photo.
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TARTAR alongside the Argentine
Type 42 destroyer HERCULES, probably in the 1970s. M.D. Thomas photo.
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ZULU dressed with flags. M.D. Thomas
photo.
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