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Dat Assawari 1973

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
ذات أسوار [Dat Assawari]	F01, 1983- 211		Vosper-Thornycroft, Woolston, UK	27.9.1968	9.1969	1.2.1973	inoperable 1992

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1325
Displacement full, t	1650
Length, m	94.5 pp 101.6 oa
Breadth, m	11.1
Draught, m	3.36
No of shafts	2
Machinery	CODOG: 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM-2A gas turbines / 2 Paxman Ventura 16YJCM diesels
Power, h. p.	48000 / 3800
Max speed, kts	37
Fuel, t	diesel / gas turbine oil 300
Endurance, nm(kts)	500(17)
Armament	2 x 3 SeaCat GWS21 SAM (18 Seacat), 1 x 1 - 114/55 Mk 8, 2 x 1 - 40/70 Bofors 350, 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	ASW-1, RDL-1, type 262 radars, type 185, type 170, type 174 sonars
Complement	132

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Project history

Vosper-Thornycroft Mk 7 frigate design, slightly larger than the two Iranian Mk 5 and with a different armament.

Modernizations

1983: - 2 x 3 SeaCat SAM, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL, ASW-1, RDL-1 radars, type 185, type 170, type 174 sonars; + 4 x 1 Otomat Mk 2 SSM (4 Otomat Mk 2), 1 x 4 Albatros SAM (4 ASpide), 2 x 3 -3 24 ILAS-3 TT (6 A244), RAN-10S, RAN-12, Decca TM1229, 2x RTN-10X radars, TSM2310 Diodon sonar, RDS-1, INS-1 ECM suites, RAN-12L/X (IPN-10) CCS

Naval service

Dat Assawari was damaged by terrorist bomb 29.10.1980 during a refit in Italy, started in 1979. Ran trials after refit began in March 1983, ship was recommissioned in October 1983 but returned to Libya only in June 1985. During the next refit in Italy ship was transferred incomplete to Tripoli and hulked.