HMS ACTIVE F171

HMS ACTIVE F171

Class……………………………Type 21 Frigate

Builder………………………..Vosper Thornycroft Ltd., Southampton , Woolston yard

Yard number……………….4233

Laid down..………………….21 July 1971

Launched….…………………23 November 1972

Completed.………………….19 June 1977

Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts : COGOG system: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines (30 knots max) + 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines (17 knots max)

Speed..…………………………30 knots

Range…………………………..4000 nm at 17 knots / 1200 nm at 30 knots

Fate

•23 September 1994: Decommissioned by RN

•23 September 1994: Transferred to Pakistan and renamed SHAH JAHAN

•12 January 2021: Torpedoed and sunk as a target during a live-firing drill in the Arabian Sea.

 

HMS ACTIVE on 31 July 1990 at Devonport, Plymouth

 

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