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BLACK STAR frigate


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Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Black Star     Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK 1965 29.12.1966 1968 // --- completed for United Kingom (Mermaid)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t2300
Displacement full, t2520
Length, m

97.5 pp 103.4 oa

Breadth, m

12.2

Draught, m

3.70

No of shafts2
Machinery

8 Admiralty SR1 diesels

Power, h. p.

14400

Max speed, kts

24

Fuel, tdiesel oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)4800(18)
Armament

1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, helicopter deck

Electronic equipmentASW-1, type 978 radars, type 174, type 170B sonars
Complement

235



Standard scale images


<i>Hang Tuah </i>1980
Hang Tuah 1980


Project history

Modified RN type 41 frigate, to serve also as presidential yacht, ordered in 1965 as Black Star, but cancelled after President Nkrumah's deposition in 1966. The British Government accepting responsibility for the hull, the ship was completed by the builders. Acquired by the RN in 1972 after six years lying idle in the Clyde and commissioned in 1973 as Mermaid. Another such frigate was projected, but never begun.