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GOOD HOPE frigates (1944-1945)


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Transvaal 1971

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
Good Hope (ex-Loch Boisdale) K432, 1950- F432   Blyth, UK 11.1943 5.7.1944 12.1944 scuttled 12.12.1978
Natal (ex-Loch Cree) K10, 1950- F10   Swan Hunter, Wallsend, UK 10.1943 19.6.1944 3.1945 survey vessel 1957, sunk as target 19.9.1972
Transvaal (ex-Loch Ard) K602, 1950- F602   Harland & Wolff, Belfast, UK 1.1944 2.8.1944 5.1945 scuttled 3.8.1978


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1435

Displacement full, t

2260

Length, m

87.2 pp 93.6 oa

Breadth, m

11.8

Draught, m

3.76 deep load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

5500

Max speed, kts

19.5

Fuel, t

oil 724

Endurance, nm(kts)

7000(15)

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/45 QF Mk XXI, 1 x 4 - 40/39 2pdr QF Mk VIII, 6 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III, 2 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk III ASWRL, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (15)

Electronic equipment

type 277 radar, type 144, type 147B sonars

Complement

177



Standard scale images


<i>Good Hope</i> 1944
Good Hope 1944
<i>Transvaal </i>1965
Transvaal 1965


Graphics


<i>Transvaal </i>1971
Transvaal 1971


Project history

Royal Navy 'Loch' class frigates completed for Royal South African Navy.

Modernizations

1955, Good Hope; 1962, Transvaal: forecastle was extended aft.

Naval service

No significant events.

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