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Type 12 Rothesay Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
F115 Berwick	H	16th June 1958	15th December 1959	1st June 1961
F106 Brighton	Y	23rd July 1957	30th October 1959	29th September 1961
F113 Falmouth	S	23rd November 1957	15th December 1959	25th July 1961
F108 Londonderry	J	15th November 1956	20th May 1958	18th October 1961
F103 Lowestoft	A	19th June 1958	23rd June 1960	26th September 1961
F126 Plymouth	D	1st July 1958	20th July 1959	11th May 1961
F129 Rhyl	P	29th January 1958	23rd April 1959	31st October 1960
F107 Rothesay	Y	6th November 1956	9th December 1957	23rd April 1960
F101 Yarmouth	B	29th November 1957	23rd March 1959	26th March 1960

Builders:
A : Alex Stephens & Sons, Govan, United Kingdom
B : J. Brown, Govan, United Kingdom
D : HM Dockyard, Devonport, United Kingdom
H : Harland & Wolff, Belfast, United Kingdom
J : J.S. White, Cowes, United Kingdom
P : HM Dockyard, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Y : Yarrow, Scotstoun, United Kingdom

Dimensions:
370' x 51' x 17' 3" / 112.77m x 15.54m x 5.27m

Displacement:
2380 tons std / 2800 tons max

Complement:
152

Armament:
2 x 4.5" guns in a single Mk VI turret
1 x 40mm gun
12 x 21" torpedo tubes in two twin trainable and eight single fixed mountings
2 x Limbo AS mortars

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 30000shp on two shafts.

Maximum speed was 30kts and range at 12kts was 5200NM. Maximum fuel load was 400 tons oil.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
Type 277Q
Type 293Q surveillance
Type 275 fire control

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

Other:
Mk6M gun director

Miscellaneous:
Corvus decoy launchers were fitted.