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Rashid 1980

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
رشيد [Rashid] (ex-Spey) 43, 1978- 511   Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK 7/1941 18.12.1941 5.1942 // 12.1949 stricken 1994
أبو قير [Aboukir] (ex-Usk)     Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK 10/1942 3.4.1943 7.1943 // 4.1950 scuttled 1.11.1956
دمياط [Damiat] (ex-Nith)     Robb, Leith, UK 9/1941 25.9.1942 2.1943 // 5.1950 sunk 1.11.1956


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1460

Displacement full, t

2180

Length, m

86.3 pp 91.8 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

3.89 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

Rashid, Damiat: oil 440

Aboukir: oil 646

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament

2 x 1 - 102/40 CP Mk 23, 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (150)

Electronic equipment

type 271 or type 272, type 291 or type 277 radars, type 144 sonar

Complement

140



Standard scale images


<i>Rashid </i>1960
Rashid 1960


Graphics


<i>Rashid </i>1980
Rashid 1980


Project history

Former British 'River' class frigates, purchased from the RN in 1948 and refitted before delivery.

Modernizations

1960s, Port Said: - 1 x 4 - 40/39, 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 2 DCT, 1 DCR; + 1 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 1 x 2 - 25/80 2M3

Naval service

Aboukir, scuttled 1.11.1956 as a blockship in the Suez Canal, was refloated on 8 April 1957, beached and abandoned. Damiat was sunk 1.11.1956 by gunfire from the British cruiser Newfoundland 8nm S of Suez. Rashid has been used as a submarine support ship since ~1975, and has a large deckhouse aft.