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Saluting HMY Britannia, the royal yacht in the 1960s, before Rothesay's 1966 Seacat/helicopter upgrade – note the 40 mm gun in stern |
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| Name | Rothesay |
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| Builder | Yarrow, Scotstoun |
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| Laid down | 6 November 1956 |
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| Launched | 9 December 1957 |
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| Commissioned | 23 April 1960 |
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| Decommissioned | March 1988 |
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| Identification | Pennant number: F107 |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1988 |
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| Class & type | Rothesay-class frigate |
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| Displacement |
- As built: 2,150 tons standard
- 2,560 tons full load
- As modified: 2,380 tons standard
- 2,800 tons full load
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| Length | 370 ft (110 m) |
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| Beam | 41 ft (12 m) |
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| Draught | 17.3 ft (5.3 m) |
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| Propulsion | |
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| Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
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| Range | 400 tons oil fuel, 5,200 nautical miles (9,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
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| Complement | 152, later 225, modified to 235 |
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Sensors &
processing systems |
- Electronics (as built):
- Radar Type 293Q target indication
- Radar Type 277Q height finding
- Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
- Radar Type 974 navigation
- Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
- Sonar Type 174 search
- Sonar Type 162 target classification
- Sonar Type 170 attack
- Electronics (as modified):
- Radar Type 993 target indication
- Radar Type 903 fire control on director MRS3
- Radar Type 978 navigation
- Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
- Sonar Type 177 search
- Sonar Type 162 target classification
- Sonar Type 170 attack
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| Armament |
- Armament (as built):
- 1 × twin 4.5in gun Mark 6
- 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun on STAAG mounting
- 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10
- 12 × 21-in A/S torpedo tubes, 8 fixed and 2 x twin trainable mounts
- Armament (as modified):
- 1 × twin 4.5in gun Mark 6
- 1 × Sea Cat GWS-20 SAM
- 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns
- 1 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10
- 1 × Westland Wasp HAS.1 Helicopter
- 2 × 8-barrel 3in Knebworth/Corvus chaff countermeasures launchers
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HMS Rothesay was the lead ship of the Rothesay or Type 12M class of anti-submarine frigates of the British Royal Navy. She was commissioned in 1960 and scrapped in 1988.