Preceded by:
Rapid (Type 15) (1951)Succeeded by:
Blackwood (Type 14) (1955)Class | Tenacious |
Type | Frigate |
Year | 1952 |
Crew | 170-180 |
Dimensions | |
Length | 103.5 m (pp) 109.2 m |
Beam | 10.9 m |
Draught | 4.2 m |
Displacement | |
Empty | 1,793 t |
Loaded | 2,593 t |
Performance | |
Speed | 68 km/h |
Range | 3,148 km @ 37 km/h |
Machinery | |
Shafts | 2 |
Turbines | 2 x Geared steam 40,000 hp Parsons |
Boilers | 2 x Admiralty |
Fuel | Oil |
Armament | |
Main | 2 x 102-mm/45 (1 x 2) QF 4"/45 Mk. XVI -10° / +80° |
Anti-Aircraft | |
Torpedo tubes | 4 x 533-mm (1 x 4) |
Anti-Sub | Squid Mk. 4 (2 x 3) |
Armor | |
Armor | None |
Sensors | |
Radar | Type 293 Type 974 |
Sonar | Type 170 Type 174P |
Production | |
Built | n/a |
Total | 12 |
Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
O-class: | |||||||||
Tughril | F261 | Fairfield | 14/01/1941 | 09/10/1941 | 1957 | 1975 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Tippu Sultan | F260 | John Brown | 01/07/1940 | 31/03/1941 | 1960 | 1980 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Orwell | F98 | Thornycroft | 20/05/1940 | 02/04/1942 | 1953 | 12/1959 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
P-class: | |||||||||
Paladin | F169 | John Brown | 22/07/1940 | 11/06/1941 | 03/1954 | 06/1961 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Petard | F56 | Vickers-Armstrong | 26/12/1939 | 27/03/1941 | 05/1953 | 06/1962 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
T-class: | |||||||||
Teazer | F23 | Cammell Laird | 20/10/1941 | 07/01/1943 | 1956 | 09/1961 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Tenacious | F44 | Cammell Laird | 03/12/1941 | 24/03/1943 | 1954 | 1954 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Termagant | F189 | Denny | 25/11/1941 | 22/03/1943 | 1953 | 08/1957 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Terpsichore | F19 | Denny | 25/11/1941 | 17/06/1943 | 1954 | 1960 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Tumult | F121 | John Brown | 16/11/1941 | 09/11/1942 | 1954 | 12/1957 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Tuscan | F156 | Swan Hunter | 06/09/1941 | 28/05/1942 | 09/1953 | 09/1953 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
Tyrian | F67 | Swan Hunter | 15/10/1941 | 27/07/1942 | 1952 | 11/1956 | Sold/Scrapped | ||
W-class: | |||||||||
Jan van Riebeeck | D278 | Fairfield | 24/10/1942 | 02/09/1943 | 1966 | 1978 | Sunk as target | ||
Simon van der Stel | D237 | Hawthorn Leslie | 01/05/1942 | 03/06/1943 | 02/1964 | 1976 | Sold/Scrapped |