Mohammed Ali 1960
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| محمد علي [Mohammed Ali] (ex-Mendip), 1952- إبراهيم الأول [Ibrahim El Awal] | Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK | 8/1940 | 9.4.1940 | 10.1940 // 11.1949 | captured by Israel 31.10.1956 (חֵיפָה [Haifa]) | ||
| إبراهيم الأول [Ibrahim El Awal] (ex-Cottesmore), 1952- محمد علي [Mohammed Ali], 1973- بورسعيد [Port Said] | 11, 1978- 525 | Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK | 12/1939 | 5.9.1940 | 12/1940 // 7.1950 | hulk 1986 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1000 |
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Displacement full, t |
1450 |
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Length, m |
80.5 pp 85.3 oa |
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Breadth, m |
8.84 |
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Draught, m |
3.81 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
|
Power, h. p. |
19000 |
|
Max speed, kts |
28 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 240 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
2500(20) |
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Armament |
2 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk 7, 1 x 1 - 40/39 Mk 8, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 3, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (50) |
| Electronic equipment | type 271, type 285, type 291 radars, type 128 sonar |
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Complement |
147 |
Project history: Former escort destroyers, launched in 1940, transferred from the RN.
Modernizations: 1960s, Port Said: - 1 x 4 - 40/39, 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 2 DCT, 1 DCR, type 123A, 177 sonars; + 1 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 1 x 2 - 25/80 2M3
Naval service: Ibrahim el Awal surrendered off Haifa on 31 October 1956 after coming under fire from the French destroyer Kersaint, and subsequently became the Israeli Haifa.
Port Said 1978
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