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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
Swale	K217		Smiths Dock, South Bank, UK	8/1941	16.1.1942	6.1942 // 7.1945	to United Kingdom 1.1946 (Swale)
Teviot	K222		Hall Russel, Aberdeen, UK	10/1941	12.10.1942	1.1943 // 6.1945	to United Kingdom 1.1946 (Teviot)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1460
Displacement full, t	2180
Length, m	86.3 pp 91.8 oa
Breadth, m	11.2
Draught, m	3.61 - 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	oil 440
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	K217: 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XIX, 4 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (150) K222: 2 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk XIX, 2 x 1 - 40/56 Bofors Mk III, 2 x 2 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog ASWRL, 8 DCT, 2 DCR (150)
Electronic equipment	type 271 or type 272, type 291 or type 277 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	140

Standard scale images

Project history

Royal Navy 'River' class frigates transferred to RSAN temporarily.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.

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