HMS NAIAD and HMS APOLLO

HMS NAIAD F39

Class……………………………Leander-class Frigate

Builder……………………….. Yarrow and Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow

Yard number……………….2224

Laid down..………………….30 October 1962

Launched….…………………4 November 1963

Completed.………………….15 March 1965

Propulsion.………………….. 2 shafts driven by English Electric Y-100 Geared Steam Turbines with steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers engines by Yarrow and Co Ltd.

Speed..…………………………30 knots (max)

Range…………………………..4600 nm at 15 knots

Fate

1987: 1 May : Paid off

1987-89: Used for hull vulnerability trials with the name HULVUL

1990: 24 September : Towed from Portsmouth 24 September 1990 and sunk as a target on 28 September during exercise JMC903

 

HMS APOLLO F70 PNS ZULFIQAR 262

Class……………………………Leander-class Frigate

Builder……………………….. Yarrow and Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow

Yard number……………….1002

Laid down..………………….21 November 1969

Launched….…………………15 October 1970

Completed.………………….28 May 1972

Propulsion.………………….. 2 shafts driven by English Electric Y-160 Geared Steam Turbines with steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers engines by J. Samuel White, Cowes

Speed..…………………………28 knots (max)

Range…………………………..4600 nm at 15 knots

Fate……………………………. 1988, Apollo was decommissioned from the Royal Navy and subsequently sold to Pakistan where she was renamed PNS ZULFIQAR. 2006 : Decommissioned and used for training purposes. 12 March 2010: ZULFIQAR was sunk as a target in the Arabian Sea. Torpedoes and missiles were fired from an F-22P frigate, P3C aircraft and an Agosta 90B submarine.

 

 

HMS NAIAD and HMS APOLLO moored alongside each other at Devonport on 28 July 1981

 

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