F-71 Scylla

Country: United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Leander ( Batch 3A ), [FF].

Builder: Devonport Royal Dockyard, U.K.

Launch date: 8th August 1968.

Commission date: 12th February 1970.

Decommission date: see comments.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.251 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 113,4 x 12,5 x 5,8

Main machinery: 2 x White English Electric double reduction geared turbines ( 30.000 hp ), 2 x Babcock Wilcox boilers, 2 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 28.

Range ( miles ): 4.600 at 15 knots.

Complement: 260 ( 19 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 20mm Oerlikon.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x MM38 Exocet; SAM: 2 x British Aerospace Seawolf GWS 25 ( 2 x 6 launchers ).

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes for Sting Ray torpedoes ( STWS-1 ).

Military lift: 460tm fuel.

Radar: Air/Surface search: 1 x Type 967/968; Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1006, I band; Fire control: 2 x Type 910 ( Seawolf ).

Sonar: Type 2016 and 162M.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Sea Gnat dispensers; ESM/ECM: UA-8/9 and UA-13 ( radar warning receivers ), UAA1/Type 670 ( jammers ).

Helicopter: 1 x Westland Lynx.

Callsign: GMRE ()