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Type 12 Whitby Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
F77 Blackpool	H	20th December 1954	14th February 1957	14th August 1958
F73 Eastbourne	E	13th January 1954	29th December 1955	9th January 1958
F63 Scarbrough	E	11th September 1953	4th April 1955	10th May 1957
F65 Tenby	C	26th March 1953	4th October 1955	18th December 1957
F43 Torquay	H	11th March 1953	1st July 1954	10th May 1956
F36 Whitby	C	30th September 1952	2nd July 1954	10th July 1956

Builders:
C : Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, United Kingdom
E : Vickers Armstrong, Elswick, United Kingdom
H : Harland & Wolff, Belfast, United Kingdom

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

Displacement:
2150 tons std / 2560 tons max

Complement:
152

Armament:
2 x 4.5" guns in a single Mk VI turret
2 x 40mm guns in a STAAG mounting
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
Type 262 STAAG fire control


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


Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous:
Corvus decoy launchers were fitted.