Rashid 1960
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| رشيد [Rashid] (ex-Spey) | 43, 1978- 511 | Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK | 7/1941 | 18.12.1941 | 5.1942 // 12.1949 | stricken 1994 | |
| أبو قير [Aboukir] (ex-Usk) | Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK | 10/1942 | 3.4.1943 | 7.1943 // 4.1950 | scuttled 1.11.1956 | ||
| دمياط [Damiat] (ex-Nith) | Robb, Leith, UK | 9/1941 | 25.9.1942 | 2.1943 // 5.1950 | sunk 1.11.1956 |
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Displacement standard, t |
1460 |
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Displacement full, t |
2180 |
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Length, m |
86.3 pp 91.8 oa |
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Breadth, m |
11.2 |
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Draught, m |
3.89 deep load |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
5500 |
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Max speed, kts |
20 |
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Fuel, t |
Rashid, Damiat: oil 440 Aboukir: oil 646 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | |
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Armament |
2 x 1 - 102/40 CP Mk 23, 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (150) |
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Electronic equipment |
type 271 or type 272, type 291 or type 277 radars, type 144 sonar |
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Complement |
140 |
Project history: Former British 'River' class frigates, purchased from the RN in 1948 and refitted before delivery.
Modernizations: 1960s, Port Said: - 1 x 4 - 40/39, 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 2 DCT, 1 DCR; + 1 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 1 x 2 - 25/80 2M3
Naval service: Aboukir, scuttled 1.11.1956 as a blockship in the Suez Canal, was refloated on 8 April 1957, beached and abandoned. Damiat was sunk 1.11.1956 by gunfire from the British cruiser Newfoundland 8nm S of Suez. Rashid has been used as a submarine support ship since ~1975, and has a large deckhouse aft.
Rashid 1980
© Ivan Gogin, 2016