HMS Whitby (F36)
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Name: | HMS Whitby |
Ordered: | 2 February 1951 |
Builder: | Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead |
Laid down: | 30 September 1952 |
Launched: | 2 July 1954 |
Commissioned: | 10 July 1956 |
Decommissioned: | 1974 |
Identification: | Pennant number: F36 |
Fate: | Sold for scrapping in 1979 |
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Class & type: | Whitby-class frigate |
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Beam: | 41 ft (12.5 m) |
Draught: | 17 ft (5.18 m) |
Propulsion: | Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW) |
Speed: | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
Range: | 370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Complement: | 152, later 225 |
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HMS Whitby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom built by Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead. She was launched on 2 July 1954 and commissioned on 10 July 1956.
Service
During 1966 she saw service in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. In 1968 she undertook fishery protection duties off the coast of Greenland - the first ship to have visited those waters since 1966. In 1968 she took part in 'Navy Days' at Portsmouth Dockyard.[1]
Commanding officers
From | To | Captain |
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1960 | 196? | Commander Desmond Cassidi RN |
1964 | 1966 | Commander J G Wemyss RN |
1966 | 1969 | Commander L Middleton RN |
1968 | 1968 | Commander H Mucklow RN |
References
- ↑ Programme, Navy Days at Portsmouth August 31st-September 2nd 1968, p.17.
Publications
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