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Mysore 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
मैसूर [Mysore] (ex-Nigeria)	C60		Vickers-Armstrong, Tyne, UK	8.2.1938	18.7.1939	23.9.1940 // 29.8.1957	BU 1986

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	8700
Displacement full, t	11040
Length, m	164.0 pp 169.3 oa
Breadth, m	18.9
Draught, m	6.27
No of shafts	4
Machinery	4 sets Parsons steam geared turbines, 4 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	72500
Max speed, kts	31.5
Fuel, t	oil 1613 - 1700
Endurance, nm(kts)	10100(12)
Armour, mm	belt: 89 - 83, bulkheads: 51 - 38, turrets: 51 - 25, barbettes: up to 25,  deck: 51 - 32
Armament	3 x 3 - 152/50 Mk 22, 4 x 2 - 102/45 Mk 19, 5 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 7
Electronic equipment	type 274, type 275, type 960, type 277Q, type 293 radars
Complement	730,  920 war

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Project history

Bought from Britain on 8 May 1954. Refitted and rebuilt by Cammell Laird. 'X' 152mm turret and TTs were removed, the bridge was modified, two lattice masts stepped, electronics was renewed and machinery refitted. Handed over at Birkenhead on 29 August 1957 and relieved Delhi as flagship.

Protection

Armoured belt extended from "A" to "Y" barbettes and to upper deck abreast boiler rooms and fore engine room and to main deck abreast aft engine room, CCC and magazines. Its thickness was 89 mm abreast magazines and 83 mm abreast machinery. Belt was closed by 51 - 38-mm bulkheads. Armoured deck was 51-mm thick (32-mm with 38-mm slopes over steering gear). Transom stern was 38-mm thick.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Mysore collided in late 1972 with frigate Beas and was two months under repair. Since May 1978 she served as flagship of training squadron.