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Rashid 1980

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
رشيد [Rashid] (ex-Spey)	43, 1978- 511		Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK	7/1941	18.12.1941	5.1942 // 12.1949	stricken 1994
أبو قير [Aboukir] (ex-Usk)			Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK	10/1942	3.4.1943	7.1943 // 4.1950	scuttled 1.11.1956
دمياط [Damiat] (ex-Nith)			Robb, Leith, UK	9/1941	25.9.1942	2.1943 // 5.1950	sunk 1.11.1956

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1460
Displacement full, t	2180
Length, m	86.3 pp 91.8 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.89 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	5500
Max speed, kts	20
Fuel, t	Rashid, Damiat: oil 440 Aboukir: oil 646
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 102/40 CP Mk 23, 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 10 ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (150)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272, type 291 or type 277 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	140

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Project history

Former British 'River' class frigates, purchased from the RN in 1948 and refitted before delivery.

Modernizations

1960s, Port Said: - 1 x 4 - 40/39, 1 x 1 - 40/39, 2 x 1 - 20/70, 2 DCT, 1 DCR; + 1 x 2 - 37/70 V-11M, 1 x 2 - 25/80 2M3

Naval service

Aboukir, scuttled 1.11.1956 as a blockship in the Suez Canal, was refloated on 8 April 1957, beached and abandoned. Damiat was sunk 1.11.1956 by gunfire from the British cruiser Newfoundland 8nm S of Suez. Rashid has been used as a submarine support ship since ~1975, and has a large deckhouse aft.