 KD Hang Tuah catches the morning sunlight while moored alongside at Pulau Labuan on 15 September 2007
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| History | |
|---|---|
 Ghana | |
| Name | Black Star |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun |
| Yard number | 2284 |
| Fate | Order canceled after Kwame Nkrumah deposed in February 1966 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Launched | 29 December 1966 |
| Renamed | HMS Mermaid |
| Commissioned | 16 May 1973 |
| Fate | Transferred to Royal Malaysian Navy in April 1977 |
 Malaysia | |
| Name | KD Hang Tuah |
| Namesake | Hang Tuah |
| Acquired | April 1977 |
| Decommissioned | 2018 |
| Status | Retired as 2018 and turned into a museum ship[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Type 41/Type 61 frigate |
| Displacement | 2,300 long tons (2,337 t) standard |
| Length | 103.5 m (339 ft 7 in) |
| Beam | 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
| Propulsion | 8 × 16-cylinder ASR1 diesels, 14,400 shp (10,738 kW), 2 shafts |
| Speed | 24 knots (28 mph; 44 km/h) |
| Complement | 210 |
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| Aviation facilities | Helicopter landing platform |
KD Hang Tuah is a frigate formerly operated by the Royal Malaysian Navy from 1977 until 2018. She is now a museum ship. She was built in the United Kingdom, originally for the Ghana Navy, but was launched and completed as a private venture, before being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1972. She served for five years as HMS Mermaid (F76) before being purchased by Malaysia, where she replaced another ex-British frigate also called Hang Tuah. She became a training ship in 1992 and was refitted to replace obsolete weapons and machinery.