HMS Tenby (F65)

HMS Tenby (F65), 1963
HMS Tenby, May 1969
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Tenby
Ordered6 March 1951
BuilderCammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead
Laid down23 June 1953
Launched4 October 1955
Commissioned18 December 1957
Decommissioned1972
IdentificationPennant number: F65
Fate
  • Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up
  • Sold for scrapping in 1977
General characteristics
Class and typeWhitby-class frigate
Displacement
  • 2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes)
  • 2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes)
Length
  • 360 ft (109.7 m) w/l
  • 370 ft (112.8 m) o/a
Beam41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught17 ft (5.18 m)
PropulsionY-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed30 kn (56 km/h)
Range370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement152, later 225
Sensors and
processing systems
  • Radar Type 293Q target indication.
  • Radar Type 277Q height finding (later removed)
  • Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
  • Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG
  • Radar Type 974 navigation
  • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
  • Sonar Type 174 search
  • Sonar Type 162 target classification
  • Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament

HMS Tenby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.