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Llandaff 1977

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Salisbury	F32		Devonport DYd	23.1.1952	25.6.1953	27.2.1957	harbour TS 5.1980
Chichester	F59	771	Fairfield, Govan	26.6.1953	21.6.1955	16.5.1958	BU 3.1981
Llandaff	F61	726	Hawthorn Leslie, Hebburn	27.8.1953	30.11.1955	11.4.1958	to Bangladesh 12.1976 (উমার ফারুক [Umar Farooq])
Lincoln	F99	772	Fairfield, Govan	1.6.1955	6.4.1959	7.7.1960	BU 4.1983

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2170
Displacement full, t	2350
Length, m	100.6 pp 103.6 oa
Breadth, m	12.2
Draught, m	3.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	8 ASR1 diesels
Power, h. p.	14400
Max speed, kts	25
Fuel, t	diesel oil 230
Endurance, nm(kts)	7500(16)
Armament	1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 1 x 2 - 40/60 STAAG Mk 2, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid Mk 3 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	type 278, type 275, type 277Q, type 960, type 982M, type 293Q, type 974 radars, type 170, type 174, type 162 sonars
Complement	205

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Project history

On the same hull as the Type 41, the Type 61 design sacrificed the after 114mm twin gun in favour of a much more comprehensive air warning radar outfit. The ships were thus a much more valuable addition to the fleet than the Leopard class, for with adequate radar coverage carrier aircraft provided much better defence against air attack than guns. This was recognized quite carry, and the Leopard class was stopped at four units whereas the Salisbury class was to have been expanded to eight units. Furthermore, the survivors had received a more comprehensive modernization.

Fourth ship, Lincoln, was completed later, with a big deckhouse aft to take a GWS20 director and a quadruple Seacat missile launcher (a single 40mm gun was mounted initially). Two more of the class, Exeter and Gloucester, were cancelled under the 1957 Defence Review and another (Coventry) was suspended. It was hoped to order her in 1961, but by then the more flexible Leander design was ready and so she was replaced by Penelope.

Modernizations

1962, Salisbury: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 960 radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, type 965 AKE-1 radar, UA-8/9 ECM suite

1964, Chichester; 1966, Llandaff; 1968, Lincoln: - type 960 radar; + type 965 AKE-1 radar, UA-8/9 ECM suite

1968, Lincoln: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, 1 x 3 - 305 Squid ASWRL, type 293Q, type 974 radars; + 1 x 4 Seacat GWS 20 SAM (12 Seacat), 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, type 993, type 978 radars, type 667 ECM suite

1970, Salisbury: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 293Q, type 974 radars; + 1 x 4 Seacat GWS 20 SAM (12 Seacat), 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 7, type 993, type 978 radars, type 667 ECM suite

early 1970s, Chichester, Llandaff: - 1 x 2 - 40/60, type 974 radar; + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, type 978 radar

1973, Chichester: - type 965 AKE-1 radar

Naval service

No significant events.