Hang Tuah 1980
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comm | Fate |
| Black Star | Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK | 1965 | 29.12.1966 | 1968 // --- | completed for United Kingom (Mermaid) |
|
Displacement standard, t |
2300 |
|
Displacement full, t |
2520 |
|
Length, m |
97.5 pp 103.4 oa |
|
Breadth, m |
12.2 |
|
Draught, m |
3.70 |
|
No of shafts |
2 |
|
Machinery |
8 Admiralty SR1 diesels |
|
Power, h. p. |
14400 |
|
Max speed, kts |
24 |
|
Fuel, t |
diesel oil 230 |
| Endurance, nm(kts) | 4800(18) |
|
Armament |
1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, helicopter deck |
|
Electronic equipment |
ASW-1, type 978 radars, type 174, type 170B sonars |
|
Complement |
235 |
Project history: Modified RN type 41 frigate, to serve also as presidential yacht, ordered in 1965 as Black Star, but cancelled after President Nkrumah's deposition in 1966. The British Government accepting responsibility for the hull, the ship was completed by the builders. Acquired by the RN in 1972 after six years lying idle in the Clyde and commissioned in 1973 as Mermaid. Another such frigate was projected, but never begun.
© Ivan Gogin, 2016