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