HMS Torquay (F43)

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History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Torquay
Ordered	6 March 1951
Builder	Harland and Wolff
Laid down	11 March 1953
Launched	1 July 1954
Commissioned	10 May 1956
Decommissioned	23 March 1985
Identification	Pennant number: F43
Fate	Scrapped 1987
General characteristics
Class and type	Whitby-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
Beam	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught	17 ft (5.18 m)
Propulsion	Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	152, later 225
Sensors and processing systems	Radar Type 293Q target indication, later; Radar Type 993 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 later Type 978 Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF Sonar Type 174 search Sonar Type 162 target classification Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament	1 × twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG, later; 1 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10 12 × 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped) no tubes were fitted in 1963 -1964.

HMS Torquay was a Type 12 Whitby-class frigate of the British Royal Navy. They were the first frigates to have the "V" form hull. This evolutionary design made it possible to be driven in head sea without the usual slamming which occurs with conventional destroyers of the time. Each frigate cost 3.5 million pounds and the first ship completed was Torquay in May 1956.