H.M.S. Exmouth
F.84
1968
(SeaVee SV-526b)
- Class: Blackwood Type 14 - 12 ASW frigates of 1951
- Displacement: 1,456 tons full load
- Dimensions: 310 (oa) x 35 x 15.5 ft
- Machinery: Rolls Royce Olympus turbine 23,200shp + two Proteus gas turbines for cruising 8,500shp geared to 1-shaft = 28 knots
- Guns: 2-40mm Mk7 (2x1)
- ASW weapons: 2 Limbo Mk 10 mortars
- Complement: 112
- Builder: White
- Keel Laid: 24 Mar 1954
- Launched: 16 Nov 1955
- Commissioned: 20 Dec 1957
- Notes: Originally had steam turbine powerplant, 3-40mm guns, and 4-21in TT. Rebuilt in 1966-68 as shown here as testbed for the Olympus/Tyne gas turbine combination, which was to become the future standard powerplant for the Royal Navy. Exmouth broken up 1979.
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