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President Steyn 1976

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
President Kruger	F145		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	6.4.1960	21.10.1960	1.10.1962	collision 18.2.1982
President Pretorius	F147		Yarrow, Scotstoun, UK	21.11.1960	28.9.1962	4.3.1964	sold 1990
President Steyn	F150		Stephen, Govan, UK	20.5.1960	23.11.1961	26.4.1963	sold 1990

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	2150
Displacement full, t	2560
Length, m	109.7 pp 112.7 oa
Breadth, m	12.5
Draught, m	3.90 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets ASR geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	30000
Max speed, kts	29
Fuel, t	oil 370
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(12)
Armament	1 x 2 - 120/45 Mk 6, 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 5, 2 x 3 - 305 Limbo Mk 10 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	type 275, type 277Q, type 293M, type 974 radars, type 174, type 177 sonars
Complement	235

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Project history

Almost identical with the RN Rothesay class, but having twin Bofors instead of single.

Modernizations

1970, President Pretorius; 1971, President Steyn: masts were plated; - 1 x 2 - 40/60, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL, type 277Q radars; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 helicopter (Wasp) with hangar, Jupiter, NA9C radars

1972, all: + 2 x 3 - 324 TT, UA-8, UA-9 ECM suites

1977, President Kruger: masts were plated; - 1 x 2 - 40/60, 1 x 3 - 305 Limbo ASWRL, type 277Q radar; + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 9, 1 helicopter (Wasp) with hangar, Jupiter radar, UA-8, UA-9 ECM suites

1979, President Kruger: - type 275 radar; + NA9C radar

Naval service

President Steyn was decommissioned in August 1980 to be cannibalized for her sisters. President Kruger was lost 80nm SW of the Cape of the Good Hope 18.2.1982 in a night collision with the repenishment ship Tafelberg.