&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:HMS_Falmouth_F113.jpg) HMS Falmouth in 1981
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| History | |
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| Name | Falmouth |
| Namesake | Falmouth |
| Builder | Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson |
| Laid down | 23 November 1957 |
| Launched | 15 December 1959 |
| Commissioned | 25 July 1961 |
| Decommissioned | July 1984 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F113 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 1989 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Class and type | Rothesay-class frigate |
| Displacement | 2,560 long tons fullload |
| Length | 370 ft |
| Beam | 41 ft |
| Draught | 17 ft 4 in |
| Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers English Electric geared turbines, 2 shafts, 30000 shafts horsepower |
| Speed | 29 kn (54 km/h; 33 mph) |
| Complement | 235 |
| Armament | 1 × twin 4.5" (114 mm) dual-purpose guns
1 × twin 40 mm on STAAG mounting 2 x Limbo Mortar Mk 10 Mountings 12 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMS Falmouth was a Rothesay-class, or "Improved Type 12", anti-submarine frigate built for the Royal Navy during the 1950s. She took part in the Third Cod War in 1976, ramming the Icelandic gunboat V/s Týr. Both ships suffered extensive damage.