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Type 14 Blackwood Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
F78 Blackwood	T	14th September 1953	4th October 1955	22nd August 1957
F80 Duncan	T	17th December 1953	30th May 1957	21st October 1958
F48 Dundas	J	17th October 1952	25th September 1953	9th March 1956
F84 Exmouth	J	24th March 1954	16th November 1955	20th December 1957
F51 Grafton	J	25th February 1953	13th September 1954	11th January 1957
F54 Hardy	Y	4th February 1953	25th November 1953	15th December 1955
F85 Keppel	Y	27th March 1953	31st August 1954	6th July 1956
F88 Malcolm	Y	1st February 1954	18th October 1955	12th December 1957
F91 Murray	A	30th November 1953	25th February 1955	5th June 1956
F94 Palliser	A	15th March 1955	10th May 1956	13th December 1957
F62 Pellew	S	5th November 1953	29th September 1954	25th July 195
F97 Russell	S	11th November 1953	10th December 1954	7th February 1957

Builders:
A : Alex Stephens & Sons, Govan, United Kingdom
J : J.S. White, Cowes, United Kingdom
S : Swan Hunter, Tyne, United Kingdom
T : Thornycroft, Southampton, United Kingdom
Y : Yarrow, Scotstoun, United Kingdom

Dimensions:
310' x 33' x 15' / 94.48m x 10.05m x 4.57m

Displacement:
1180 tons std / 1456 tons max

Complement:
112

Armament:
3 x 40mm Mk9 Bofors guns in single mountings
4 x 21" torpedo tubes in twin mountings
2 x Limbo AS mortars

Dundas, Grafton, Hardy, Keppel, Murray, Pellew and Russell were not fitted with torpedo tubes.

Aircraft Facilities:
None fitted.

Armour:
None known.

Powerplant:
Two Babcock & Wilcox 550psi boilers were fitted with two English Electric steam turbines producing a total of 15000shp on one shaft.

Maximum speed was 27kts and range at 12kts was 5200NM.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
Type 978 navigation

Sonar:
Type 162 target classification
Type 170 attack
Type 174 search

Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous: