HMS KEPPEL F85
Class:………………………….Type 14 Blackwood class Frigate
Builder:………………………Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Yard number:……………..2013
Laid down:………………….27 Mar 1953
Launched:…………………..31 Aug 1954
Completed:…………………6 Jul 1956
Propulsion:…………………..1 shaft driven by a English Electric geared steam turbine with steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox oil fired boilers
Speed:…………………………27 knots (max)
Range:…………………………4500 nautical miles at 12 knots
Fate:…………………………….April 1979: Arrived Sittingbourne, Kent, 27/04/1979 for scrapping by Liguria Maritime.
The high unit cost of the Whitby design - £3.5m - led the Admiralty to consider cheaper vessels which could to be built more quickly: the result was the Type 14 (there was no Type 13), with the same ASW capacity as the Type 12, but with only half the power and virtually every other capability eliminated.
An undated RN postcard of HMS KEPPEL.
HMS KEPPEL F85
Class:………………………….Type 14 Blackwood class Frigate
Builder:………………………Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow
Yard number:……………..2013
Laid down:………………….27 Mar 1953
Launched:…………………..31 Aug 1954
Completed:…………………6 Jul 1956
Propulsion:…………………..1 shaft driven by a English Electric geared steam turbine with steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox oil fired boilers
Speed:…………………………27 knots (max)
Range:…………………………4500 nautical miles at 12 knots
Fate:…………………………….April 1979: Arrived Sittingbourne, Kent, 27/04/1979 for scrapping by Liguria Maritime.
The high unit cost of the Whitby design - £3.5m - led the Admiralty to consider cheaper vessels which could to be built more quickly: the result was the Type 14 (there was no Type 13), with the same ASW capacity as the Type 12, but with only half the power and virtually every other capability eliminated.
An undated RN postcard of HMS KEPPEL.