F-221 Regele Ferdinand

Country:  Romania

Class, [Type]: Type 22 Batch 2, [FF].

Builder: Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.

Launch date: 08 April 1986.

Commission date: 09 September 2004.

Displacement ( tons ): 4.100 standard, 4.800 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 148,1 x 14,8 x 6,4

Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x RR Olympus TM3B reconditioned gas turbines ( 50.000 hp ), 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30, 18 on Tyne´s.

Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 18 knots on Tyne´s.

Complement: 273 ( 30 officers ), but the total amount could rise up to 296 ( as F98 Coventry ).

Guns: 1 x OTO Melara Super Rapid 76mm/62, 4 x Oerlikon/BMARC GCM-A03 30mm/75 ( en dos montajes dobles )?, 2 x Oerlikon/BMARC 20mm GAM-B01?.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm Plessey STWS Mk 2 ( 2 triple tubes ). Marconi Stingray.

Radar: Air/Surface: Marconi Type 967/968, D/E bands; Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006 or 1007, I band; Fire Control: AMS Nautis.

Sonar: Plessey Type 2016 or Ferranti/Thomson Sintra Type 2050, hull mounted, active search and attack modes. Dowty Type 2031Z, towed sonar, passive search, ultralow frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Terma SKWS. Towed torpedo decoy Graseby Type 182; ESM/ECM: MEL UUA-2 ( interceptor ), Type 670 ( jammer ).

Callsign: YQXC ()

Comment: Ex - RN F98 Coventry. She was sold to the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003 and renamed Regele Ferdinand.

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