HMS Aurora (F10)

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Aurora post IKARA conversion
History
United Kingdom
Name	Aurora
Builder	John Brown & Company
Cost	£4.65m
Yard number	721
Laid down	1 June 1961
Launched	28 November 1962
Commissioned	9 April 1964
Recommissioned	5 August 1967
Decommissioned	28 April 1987
Refit	Converted to IKARA Batch 1b Leander 4 December 1974 – 27 February 1976 – Chatham Dockyard. Conversion cost £15.58m
Homeport	Chatham
Identification	Pennant number: F10
Motto	Post Tenebras Lux: 'After darkness light'
Fate	Arrived for scrapping 6 September 1990 at Millom, Cumbria
General characteristics
Class and type	Leander-class frigate
Displacement	2,500 tons standard, 2,962 tons full load
Length	113.4 m (372 ft 1 in)
Beam	13.1 m (43 ft 0 in)
Draught	4.5 m (14 ft 9 in)
Propulsion	2 Babcock & Wilcox oil-fired boilers, geared steam turbines, 22,370 kilowatts (30,000 hp), 2 shafts
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Range	7,400 kilometres (4,600 mi; 4,000 nmi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	260
Sensors and processing systems	Radar: Types 965 (air warning radar removed in batch 1 ships), 992Q, 903, 974/978 Sonar: Types 162, 184, 199
Armament	Initial: 2 × 4.5-inch guns (1 × twin mounting Mk6) 1 × Seacat surface-to-air missile launcher 2 × 20 mm guns (single mountings) 1 × ASW Limbo mortar Batch 1: 1 × Ikara Anti submarine missile launcher 2 × Seacat surface-to-air missile launchers 2 × 40 mm guns - single mountings 2 × triple 324 mm (12.75 in) STWS-1 tubes for Mk 46 and Stingray ASW torpedoes 1 × Limbo ASW Mortar
Aircraft carried	Initial and Batch 1: 1 × Westland Wasp ASW helicopter.

HMS Aurora was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like other ships of the class, Aurora was named after a figure of mythology, Aurora being the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Eos.