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History | |
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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 | |
Length | |
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 |
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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.