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Rajput

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Rana (राणा) (ex-Raider)	D115		Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, UK	4.1941	1.4.1942	11.1942 // 9.9.1949	deleted 1979
Ranjit (रणजीत) (ex-Redoubt)	D141		John Brown, Clydebank, UK	6/1941	2.5.1942	10/1942 // 4.7.1949	deleted 1979
Rajput (राजपूत) (ex-Rotherham)	D209		John Brown, Clydebank, UK	4.1941	21.3.1942	8.1942 // 29.7.1949	deleted 1976

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1725
Displacement full, t	2424
Length, m	103.5 pp 109.2 oa
Breadth, m	10.9
Draught, m	4.29 deep load
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 2 Admiralty 3-drum diesels
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 490
Endurance, nm(kts)	4675(20)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk XVIII, 4 x 1 - 40/60 Mk VII, 1 x 4 - 40/39 Mk VII, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Mk V, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 4 DCT, 3 DCR (130)
Electronic equipment	type 272, type 285, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	225

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Project history

All given lattice foremast in place of tripod, new funnel ventilating trunks for tropical service, retubed boilers and new radar prior to transfer. The new top hamper was counterweighted with 30t of permanent pig iron ballast.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.