HMS CHARYBDIS F75

HMS CHARYBDIS F75

Class……………………………Leander-class Frigate

Builder……………………….. Harland and Wolff, Belfast

Yard number……………….1675

Laid down..………………….27 January 1967

Launched….…………………28 February 1968.

Completed.………………….6 June 1969.

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

Speed..…………………………30 knots (max)

Range…………………………..4600 nm at 15 knots

Fate

September 1991: Decommissioned for the final time.

11 June 1993: Sunk during a Joint Maritime Course sinking exercise off the Benbecula Rocket Range in the Western Isles of Scotland

 

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