F-93 Beaver

Country:  United Kingdom

Class, [Type]: Type 22 Batch 2, [FF].

Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, U.K.

Launch date: 08 May 1982.

Commission date: 18 December 1984.

Decommission date: 01 May 1999.

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 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.

Guns: 4 x Oerlikon/BMARC GCM-A03 30mm/75, in two double mountings. 2 x Oerlikon/BMARC GAM-B01 20mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 4 x Aerospatiale MM 38 Exocet. SAM: British Aerospace Seawolf GWS 25 Mod 4, two mountings.

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: 2 x Marconi Type 911, I/K bands ( Seawolf ).

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: 4 x Sea Gnat. Towed torpedo decoy Graseby Type 182; ESM/ECM: MEL UUA-2 ( interceptor ), Type 670 ( jammer ).

Helicopter: different configurations available: 2 x Westland Lynx HMA 3/8 or 1 x Westland Seaking HAS 5 or 1 x EH101 Merlin HAS 1.

Callsign: GBBL ()

Comment: Sold to shipbreakers in Turkey for scraping in 2001. Has already been scrapped there.

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