Preceded by:
Rothesay (Type 12M) (1960)Succeeded by:
Leander (Type 12I) (1963) | |
| Class | Tribal |
| Type | Frigate |
| Year | 1961 |
| Crew | 253 |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 350 ft (pp) 360 ft |
| Beam | 42 ft |
| Draught | 13 ft |
| Displacement | |
| Empty | 2,300 t |
| Loaded | 2,700 t |
| Performance | |
| Speed | 27 kt |
| Range | 4,500 nmi @ 12 kn |
| Machinery | |
| Shafts | 1 |
| Turbines | 1 x Geared steam 12,500 hp Metrovick 1 x Gas turbine 7,500 hp AEI G6 |
| Boilers | 1 x Babcock & Wilcox |
| Fuel | Oil: 400 t |
| Armament | |
| Main | 2 x 4.50-in/45 (1 x 2) QF 4.5"/45 Mk. V -15° / +80° |
| Anti-Aircraft | 3 x 1.6-in (3 x 1) QF Bofors L/60 |
| Anti-Sub | Limbo Mk. 10 (2 x 3) |
| Armor | |
| Armor | None |
| Sensors | |
| Radar | Type 903 Type 965 (AKE-1) Type 974/978 Type 998 |
| Sonar | Type 162 Type 170 Type 177 Type 199 |
| Aircraft | |
| Helicopters | 1 |
| Production | |
| Built | 7 |
| Total | 7 |
| Ship | Code | Builder | Laid | Launch | Comm | Decomm | Fate | ||
|
Ashanti | F117 | Yarrow | 15/01/1958 | 09/03/1959 | 23/11/1961 | 1981 | Sunk as target | |
|
Eskimo | F119 | White | 22/10/1958 | 20/03/1961 | 21/02/1963 | 08/1980 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Gurkha | F122 | Thornycroft | 03/11/1958 | 11/07/1960 | 13/02/1963 | 1980 | Transferred | |
|
Mohawk | F125 | Vickers-Armstrong | 23/12/1960 | 05/04/1962 | 29/11/1963 | 1980 | Sold/Scrapped | |
|
Nubian | F131 | Portsmouth DYd | 07/09/1959 | 06/09/1960 | 09/10/1962 | 1979 | Sunk as target | |
|
Tartar | F133 | Devonport DYd | 22/10/1959 | 19/09/1960 | 26/02/1962 | 1980 | Transferred | |
|
Zulu | F124 | Stephen | 13/12/1960 | 03/07/1962 | 17/04/1964 | 1979 | Transferred |
| Ship | Code | Former | Code | Comm | Decomm | Fate | |||
 |
Martha Krystina Tiyahahu | 331 | |
Zulu | F124 | 1984 | 2009 | Inactive | |
|
Wilhemus Zakarias | 332 | |
Gurkha | F122 | 30/03/1984 | 1999 | Inactive | |
|
Hasanuddin | 333 | |
Tartar | F133 | 29/03/1984 | 2009 | Inactive |
