Name: | SCARBOROUGH |
Type: | Frigate |
Keel: | 11/09/1953 |
Launched: | 04/04/1955 |
Completed: | 10/05/1957 |
Builder: | Vickers Armstrong Ltd |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 142 |
Dimensions: | 2150disp - 2560disp, 360.0 x 41.0 x 17.3(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x English Electric geared turbines, 30000shp |
Engines by: | Vickers Armstrong Ltd |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 1 x 2 x 4.5ins DP, 1 x 2 x 40mm guns; 2 x 3 x Limbo AS mortars; |
2 x 2 x 21.0ins & 8 x 1 x 21.0ins torpedoes | |
History: | |
10/05/1957 | British Royal Navy |
31/08/1977 | Broken up |
Comments: | Member of the Type 12 Whitby Class |
Allocated pennant F63 | |
The only one of the class to retain the original short funnel for most of her life | |
1974: Sold to Pakistan with plans to modernise before delivery. Laid up on the Tyne | |
31/08/1977: Arrived at Blyth for breaking up by CF Booth |
Above photo is courtesy of Kevin Blair
Above photo is copyright of the Imperial War Museum
Above photo, dated 22/11/1975, is copyright of Dennis Maccoy
Above photo, dated 01/02/1976, is copyright of Peter Crichton
Above: Arriving at Blyth 31/08/1977. Photo is copyright of Paul Hood
Above: In dock for breaking up at Blyth. Photo is copyright of Paul Hood