HMS NAIAD F39

HMS NAIAD F39

Class……………………………Leander-class Frigate

Builder……………………….. Yarrow and Co. Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow

Yard number……………….2224

Laid down..………………….30 October 1962

Launched….…………………4 November 1963

Completed.………………….15 March 1965

Propulsion.………………….. 2 shafts driven by English Electric Y-100 Geared Steam Turbines with steam supplied by 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers engines by Yarrow and Co Ltd.

Speed..…………………………30 knots (max)

Range…………………………..4600 nm at 15 knots

Fate

1987: 1 May : Paid off

1987-89: Used for hull vulnerability trials with the name HULVUL

1990: 24 September : Towed from Portsmouth 24 September 1990 and sunk as a target on 28 September during exercise JMC903

 

1982 Photograph of the Leander Class frigate modified to the Ikara configuration

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