NAVYPEDIA

Photo

Py 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Py (ex-Perkins)	D27		Consolidated, Orange, USA	6/1944	7.12.1944	4/1945 // 15.1.1973	deleted 1984

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2406
Displacement full, t	3493
Length, m	116.6 wl 119.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	4.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	32
Fuel, t	oil 727
Endurance, nm(kts)	4000 (20)
Armament	3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, helicopter deck
Electronic equipment	SPS-29, SPS-30, SPS-37, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar
Complement	275

Standard scale images

Graphics

Project history

Former USN Gearing class, modified under FRAM II.

Modernizations

1977-1978: + 4 x 1 MM38 Exocet SSM (4 MM38)

Naval service

No significant events.