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Hang Tuah 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Hang Tuah (ex-Mermaid, ex-Black Star)	F76		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	1965	29.12.1966	16.5.1973 // 8.1977	TS 1992, discarded 2018

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2300
Displacement full, t	2520
Length, m	103.4
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	4.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	8 16-cyl. ASR-I diesels
Power, h. p.	14400
Max speed, kts	24
Fuel, t	diesel oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(15)
Armament	1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 6, 2 x 2 - 30/75 Emerlec EX-30, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	type 978, AWS-1 radars, type 170B, type 174 sonars
Complement	210

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Project history

Ordered in 1964 as frigate-yacht Black Star for Ghana navy but due to political reasons transfer was refused and ship was commissioned by Royal Navy as Mermaid. In 1977 she was purchased by Malaysia as replacement for the first Hang Tuah.

Modernizations

1996: re-motorized (2 Wärtsilä 12SW28 diesels, 10000hp, 20kts); - 1 x 2 - 102/45, 2 x 1 - 40/60, 2 x 2 - 30/75, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL, type 978 radar, type 170B, type 174 sonars; + 1 x 1 - 57/70 SAK-57 Mk 1, 2 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 350, Decca 1226 radar

Naval service

No significant events.