LIN FU escort destroyer (1940/1948)

Lin Fu 1948

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
靈甫 [Lin Fu] (ex-Mendip)			Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK	8/1940	9.4.1940	10.1940 // 19.5.1948	returned to United Kingdom 27.5.1949 (Mendip)

Displacement standard, t

1000

Displacement full, t

1450

Length, m

80.5 pp 85.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.84

Draught, m

3.81 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

19000

Max speed, kts

28

Fuel, t

oil 240

Endurance, nm(kts)

2500(20)

Armament

2 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XIX, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (50)

Electronic equipment type 285, type 286 radars, type 128 sonar

Complement

147

Project history: Former British Hunt class (batch 1) escort destroyer, transferred to China for 8 years but returned to RN at Hong Kong due to Nationalist collapse on mainland.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Later Mendip was transferred to Egypt.

Displacement standard, t	1000
Displacement full, t	1450
Length, m	80.5 pp 85.3 oa
Breadth, m	8.84
Draught, m	3.81 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	19000
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	oil 240
Endurance, nm(kts)	2500(20)
Armament	2 x 2 - 102/45 QF Mk XIX, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Mk VIII, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (50)
Electronic equipment	type 285, type 286 radars, type 128 sonar
Complement	147

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LIN FU escort destroyer (1940/1948)