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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
UNITED KINGDOM
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SALISBURY frigates (4, 1957 - 1960)


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Llandaff 1977

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Salisbury F32   Devonport DYd 23.1.1952 25.6.1953 27.2.1957 harbour TS 5.1980
Chichester F59 771 Fairfield, Govan 26.6.1953 21.6.1955 16.5.1958 BU 3.1981
Llandaff F61 726 Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn 27.8.1953 30.11.1955 11.4.1958 to Bangladesh 12.1976 (উমার ফারুক [Umar Farooq])
Lincoln F99 772 Fairfield, Govan 1.6.1955 6.4.1959 7.7.1960 BU 4.1983


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

2170

Displacement full, t

2350

Length, m

100.6 pp 103.6 oa

Breadth, m

12.2

Draught, m

3.60

No of shafts

2

Machinery

8 ASR1 diesels

Power, h. p.

14400

Max speed, kts

25

Fuel, t

diesel oil 230

Endurance, nm(kts)

7500(16)

Armament

1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 1 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 3 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

type 278, type 275, type 277Q, type 960, type 982M, type 293Q, type 974 radars, type 170, type 174, type 162 sonars

Complement

205



Standard scale images


<i>Salisbury </i>1957
Salisbury 1957
<i>Salisbury </i>1968
Salisbury 1968
<i>Salisbury </i>1963
Salisbury 1963
<i>Salisbury </i>1979
Salisbury 1979


Graphics


<i>Llandaff </i>1977
Llandaff 1977
<i>Salisbury </i>1980 <i>Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.</i>
Salisbury 1980 Many thanks to Wolfgang Stöhr for additional information on this page.


Project history

On the same hull as the Type 41, the Type 61 design sacrificed the after 114mm twin gun in favour of a much more comprehensive air warning radar outfit. The ships were thus a much more valuable addition to the fleet than the Leopard class, for with adequate radar coverage carrier aircraft provided much better defence against air attack than guns. This was recognized quite carry, and the Leopard class was stopped at four units whereas the Salisbury class was to have been expanded to eight units. Furthermore, the survivors had received a more comprehensive modernization.

Fourth ship, Lincoln, was completed later, with a big deckhouse aft to take a GWS20 director and a quadruple Seacat missile launcher (a single 40mm gun was mounted initially). Two more of the class, Exeter and Gloucester, were cancelled under the 1957 Defence Review and another (Coventry) was suspended. It was hoped to order her in 1961, but by then the more flexible Leander design was ready and so she was replaced by Penelope.

Modernizations

1962, Salisbury: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 960 radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, type 965 AKE-1 radar, UA-8/9 ECM suite

1964, Chichester; 1966, Llandaff; 1968, Lincoln: - type 960 radar; + type 965 AKE-1 radar, UA-8/9 ECM suite

1968, Lincoln: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid ASWRL, type 293Q, type 974 radars; + 1 x 4 Seacat GWS 20 SAM (12 Seacat), 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, type 993, type 978 radars, type 667 ECM suite

1970, Salisbury: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 293Q, type 974 radars; + 1 x 4 Seacat GWS 20 SAM (12 Seacat), 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, type 993, type 978 radars, type 667 ECM suite

early 1970s, Chichester, Llandaff: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 974 radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, type 978 radar

1973, Chichester: - type 965 AKE-1 radar

Naval service

No significant events.