The Tribal-class frigates were a class of twenty general-purpose frigates for the Royal Navy designed during the 1950s that served throughout the 1960s and 1970s with limited service during the 1980s.
Specifications[]
- Type: General Purpose Frigate
- Service Period: 1961-1984
- Characteristics:
- Length: 360 feet (109.73 meters)
- Beam: 42 feet 3 inches (12.88 meters)
- Draught: 15 feet 5 inches (4.7 meters)
- Displacement: 2,300 tons (Standard); 2,700 tons (Full Load)
- Crew: 253
- Propulsion: COSAG, 1 x Metrovick G-6 gas turbine, 1 x steam turbine, 20,000 shp (14,900 kW)
- Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,334 kilometers) at 12 kots (22.22 km/h)
- Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
- Sensor Suite:
- Type 965 Air Search RDF
- Type 993 Low Angle Search RDF
- Type 978 Navigation RDF
- Type 903 Gun Fire Control RDF
- Type 262 GWS-21 Fire Control RDF
- Type 177 Search ASDIC
- Type 170 Attack ASDIC
- Type 162 Bottom Profiling ASDIC
- Type 199 Variable Depth ASDIC
- Armament:
- 2 x QF 4.5"/45-caliber Mk.V Mod 1 naval guns (2x1)
- 2 x Bofors 40mm/60-caliber Mk.VII anti-aircraft guns (2x1)
- 2 x 4-rail Sea Cat AAM Launchers
- 2 x Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft guns (2x1)
- 1 x Mk.10 Limbo ASW Mortar
- Aircraft Carried: 1 x Westland Wasp
Unit Run[]
- HMS Ashanti (F117)
- HMS Punjabi (F118)
- HMS Eskimo (F119)
- HMS Mohawk (F120)
- HMS Saracen (F121)
- HMS Gurkha (F122) - sold to Indonesia, renamed KRI Wilhelmus Zakarias Yohannes (332)
- HMS Matabele (F123)
- HMS Zulu (F124) - sold to Indonesia, renamed KRI Martha Khristina Tiyahahu (331)
- HMS Mohawk (F125)
- HMS Sikh (F126)
- HMS Afridi (F127)
- HMS Somali (F128)
- HMS Maori (F129)
- HMS Bedouin (F130)
- HMS Nubian (F131)
- HMS Cossack (F132)
- HMS Tartar (F133) - sold to Indonesia, renamed KRI Hasanuddin (333)
- HMS Mashona (F134)
- HMS Nauruan (F135)
- HMS Inuit (F136)