| Name: | LLANDAFF |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Keel: | 27/08/1953 |
| Launched: | 30/11/1955 |
| Completed: | 11/04/1958 |
| Builder: | Hawthorn, Leslie (Ship Builders) Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 726 |
| Dimensions: | 2170disp - 2400disp, 330.0 x 40.0 x 15.5(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 8 x Oil engines, ASR1 type, 16cyl, 13,400shp |
| Engines by: | British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 24.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 1 x 2 x 4.5ins, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns, 1 x Squid anti-submarine mortar |
| History: | |
| 11/04/1958 | British Royal Navy |
| 10/12/1976 | Government of Bangladesh; renamed UMAR FAROOQ |
| 2016 | Broken up |
| Comments: | A Salisbury Class or Type 61 Frigate designed for aircraft direction |
| Fitted with a relatively complex radar configuration | |
| 1963: Mainmast heightened and plated in for the AKE2 radar | |
| 30/12/2015: Decommissioned | |
| 12/2015: Used as a museum ship | |
| 2016: Broken up in Bangladesh |
Above photo as LLANDAFF showing the original mainmast is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as LLANDAFF showing the original mainmast is copyright of the National Museum of Wales
Above photo as LLANDAFF showing the original mainmast is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as LLANDAFF showing the modified mainmast is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as LLANDAFF showing the modified mainmast is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as UMAR FAROOQ is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as UMAR FAROOQ is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo as UMAR FAROOQ is courtesy of Dan Entwisle
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