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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Black Star			Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	1965	29.12.1966	1968 // ---	completed for United Kingom (Mermaid)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2300
Displacement full, t	2520
Length, m	97.5 pp 103.4 oa
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	3.70
No of shafts	2
Machinery	8 Admiralty SR1 diesels
Power, h. p.	14400
Max speed, kts	24
Fuel, t	diesel oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(18)
Armament	1 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL, helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	ASW-1, type 978 radars, type 174, type 170B sonars
Complement	235

Standard scale images

Project history

Modified RN type 41 frigate, to serve also as presidential yacht, ordered in 1965 as Black Star, but cancelled after President Nkrumah's deposition in 1966. The British Government accepting responsibility for the hull, the ship was completed by the builders. Acquired by the RN in 1972 after six years lying idle in the Clyde and commissioned in 1973 as Mermaid. Another such frigate was projected, but never begun.