HMS AMAZON F169

Class……………………………Amazon Type 21

Builder………………………..Vosper Thornycroft, Woolston

Yard number……………….4228

Laid down..………………….6 November 1969

Launched….…………………26 April 1971

Completed.………………….11 May 1974

Propulsion.…………………..2 shafts : COGOG: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines / 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines.

Speed..…………………………30 knots

Range…………………………..4000 nm at 17 knots

Fate

1993: Sold to Pakistan and renamed BADUR.

2015: Decommissioned

 

 

HMS Amazon (F169) was the first Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid down at the Vosper Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton, England. The ship suffered a fire in the Far East in 1977, drawing attention to the risk of building warships with aluminium superstructure.

Amazon was the only unit of her class to not participate in the Falklands War, as she was in the Persian Gulf at the time.

By the mid-1980s the surviving Type 21s were suffering cracking in the hull and so she was taken in for refitting, with a steel plate being welded down each side of the ship. At the same time modifications were made to reduce hull noise. Four Exocet launchers were also fitted in 'B' position, the last of the class to be so fitted.

Amazon decommissioned and was sold to Pakistan on 30 September 1993, being renamed Babur

 

HMS AMAZON in a MOD photo taken in 1973 during her trials

 

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