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EGYPTIAN NAVY (EGYPT)

TORPEDO SHIPS

EL FATEH destroyers (1944/1956)

El Qaher 1960

El Fateh 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
قاهر  [El Qaher] (ex-Myngs)     Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne 5/1942 31.5.1943 6/1944 // 7.1956 sunk 16.5.1970
الفاتح [El Fateh] (ex-Zenith) 833, 1982- 921   Denny, Dumbarton 5/1942 5.6.1944 12/1944 // 7.1956 stricken 2006

   

Displacement standard, t

1730

Displacement full, t

2575

Length, m

103.5 pp 110.6 oa

Breadth, m

10.9

Draught, m

4.42

No of shafts

2

Machinery

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

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

36.75

Fuel, t

oil 588

Endurance, nm(kts) 4675(20)

Armament

4 x 1 - 114/45 Mk 5, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7,  2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (130)

Electronic equipment

type 275, type 291, type 293 radars, type 144Q sonar

Complement

222

Project history: Purchased from RN in 1955 and refitted before delivery.

Modernizations: 1964, both: + type 960 radar

late 1980s, El Qaher: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, 4 x 1 - 40/60, 4 DCT, 2 DCR, type 291, type 293, type 960 radars, type 123A, 127 sonars; + 2 x 1 Strela-2M SAM, 2 x 2 - 37/63 type 81, SNW-1, Decca 916 radars

Naval service: El Qaher was sunk 16.5.1970 in the Red Sea by Israeli aircraft at Ras Banas.

El Fateh 1977

El Fateh 1994

© Ivan Gogin, 2016