Otago
Displacement: 2144 tons, length 370ft overall, beam 41ft, draught 17ft. Complement: 250
Armament : 1 quadruple Seacat missile launcher, 2 x 4.5in guns in twin turret, 2 limbo 3 barrelled depth charge mortars, 8 x 21in. later replaced by 6-12.75 in. AS torpedo tubes
Machinery: two sets geared turbines, two shafts, 30,000 shp. Spd.: 30 kts. Pennant No.:F111
Completed as Rothesay Class frigate to specific NZ modifications, HMNZS Otago commissioned at Southampton, 22 June 1960 and arrived in NZ in 1961. She was fitted with the Seacat sea-to-air missile system in 1963. During her long service OTAGO took part in regular deployments to the Far East, to North America, Hawaii, Australia and the Pacific Islands for multi-national exercises. In NZ waters she took part in ceremonial occasions, SAR, royal tours and supply duties to outlying islands. In 1973 Otago was sent by the NZ Government to protest against French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll. On 28 June, OTAGO sailed from NZ bound for the test zone. The first bomb took place on 21 July and the frigate flashed news of the explosion to the world. OTAGO finally decommissioned on 7 November 1983 and was subsequently scrapped in Auckland.
Official RNZN photo, dtaed 1967
Otago
Displacement: 2144 tons, length 370ft overall, beam 41ft, draught 17ft. Complement: 250
Armament : 1 quadruple Seacat missile launcher, 2 x 4.5in guns in twin turret, 2 limbo 3 barrelled depth charge mortars, 8 x 21in. later replaced by 6-12.75 in. AS torpedo tubes
Machinery: two sets geared turbines, two shafts, 30,000 shp. Spd.: 30 kts. Pennant No.:F111
Completed as Rothesay Class frigate to specific NZ modifications, HMNZS Otago commissioned at Southampton, 22 June 1960 and arrived in NZ in 1961. She was fitted with the Seacat sea-to-air missile system in 1963. During her long service OTAGO took part in regular deployments to the Far East, to North America, Hawaii, Australia and the Pacific Islands for multi-national exercises. In NZ waters she took part in ceremonial occasions, SAR, royal tours and supply duties to outlying islands. In 1973 Otago was sent by the NZ Government to protest against French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa Atoll. On 28 June, OTAGO sailed from NZ bound for the test zone. The first bomb took place on 21 July and the frigate flashed news of the explosion to the world. OTAGO finally decommissioned on 7 November 1983 and was subsequently scrapped in Auckland.
Official RNZN photo, dtaed 1967