HMS Diomede (F16)

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History
United Kingdom
Name	Diomede
Namesake	Diomede
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders
Laid down	30 January 1968
Launched	15 April 1969
Commissioned	2 April 1971
Decommissioned	31 May 1988
Fate	Sold to Pakistan, July 1988
Pakistan
Name	Shamsheer
Commissioned	1988
Fate	Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type	Leander-class frigate
Displacement	3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load
Length	113.4 m (372 ft 1 in)
Beam	12.5 m (41 ft 0 in)
Draught	5.8 m (19 ft 0 in)
Propulsion	2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range	4,600 nmi (8,500 km; 5,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	223
Armament	As built: 1 × twin 4.5 inch (114 mm) guns 1 × quadruple Sea Cat anti-aircraft missile launchers 1 × Limbo anti-submarine mortar From 1980: 2 × quadruple Seacat anti-aircraft missile launchers 2 × single 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns 2 × triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried	1 × Westland Wasp helicopter From 1980: 1 × Lynx helicopter

HMS Diomede (F16) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow. Diomede was launched on 15 April 1969 and commissioned on 2 April 1971. In 1988, the vessel was taken out of service and sold to Pakistan. Renamed PNS Shamsheer, the vessel served with the Pakistan Navy until being scrapped.