HMS Diomede (F16)
Type 12I or Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy and Pakistan Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Diomede (F16) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders in Glasgow. Diomede was launched on 15 April 1969 and commissioned on 2 April 1971. In 1988, the vessel was taken out of service and sold to Pakistan. Renamed PNS Shamsheer, the vessel served with the Pakistan Navy until being scrapped.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Diomede |
Namesake | Diomede |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 30 January 1968 |
Launched | 15 April 1969 |
Commissioned | 2 April 1971 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1988 |
Fate | Sold to Pakistan, July 1988 |
Pakistan | |
Name | Shamsheer |
Commissioned | 1988 |
Fate | Scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leander-class frigate |
Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
Length | 113.4 m (372 ft 1 in) |
Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 4,600 nmi (8,500 km; 5,300 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 223 |
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