WORLD OF WARSHIPS F63 HMS SCARBOROUGH TYPE 12 ASW FRIGATE

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H.M.S. Scarborough A first rate anti-submarine, Type 12, Whitby Class frigate, Laid down 11 September 1953, built by Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and launched on the 4th April 1955 by the Countess of Scarborough. Commissioned 10th May 1957. Decommissioned and paid off 7th August 1972. 1974 Sale to Pakistan cancelled. 31st August 1977 Blyth Shipbreakers
HMS SCARBOROUGH 1958 alongside at Garden Island, Sydney, NSW.
She had been taking part in "Operation Grapple" during the Christmas Island Hydrogen Bomb Tests.
Photograph taken by Roger Eastwood.


Ship Details
Displacement 2,150 tons
Length 370ft o/a
Beam 41ft
Draught 17ft
Propulsion 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers
2 English Electric steam turbines
Speed 30 knots
Range 370 tons oil fuel, 4,200nm
7,780km at 12 knots
Complement 152 - 225
Armament 1 x twin 4.5in gun Mk6
1 x twin 40mm Bofors gun Mk2 STAAG later
1 x single 40mm Bofors gun Mk7
A/S Weaponry 2 x Limbo A/S mortar Mk10
12 x 21in A/S torpedo tubes

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