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PRESIDENT BOURGUIBA frigate (1943/1973)

President Bourguiba 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
برصيدنة برغبة [President Bourguiba] (ex-Thomas J. Gary), 1989- ندخ [Indakh] E7   Consolidated, Orange, USA 15.6.1943 21.8.1943 27.11.1943 // 27.10.1973 fire 16.4.1992

 

Displacement standard, t

1590

Displacement full, t

1850

Length, m

91.4 wl 93.3 oa

Breadth, m

11.2

Draught, m

4.27 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

4 Fairbanks Morse 38D81/8x10 diesels

Power, h. p.

6000

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

diesel oil 310

Endurance, nm(kts) 11500(11)

Armament

2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 20, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL

Electronic equipment

SPS-10, SPS-8, SPS-29, Mk 34 radars, SQS-29 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

Complement

170

Project history: Former USN Edsall-class destroyer escort radar-picket. Transferred to Tunisia as the flagship.

Modernizations: 1968: - 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, SPS-8 radar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites

Naval service: Indakh suffered a major fire 16.4.1992 and was restored only as accommodation hulk.

President Bourguiba 1980

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