Batch 1: Broadsword, Battleaxe, Brilliant, Brazen The type 22 were a new generation of frigates planned by British Royal Navy to replaced 1950-60 vessels FY1977. Fourteen were built total, but the design changed over time, so much so three batches existed with the last ship, HMS Chatham, completed in 1990 as the cold war ended. … Read more
8 frigates + exports 1969-78: Amazon, Antelope, Active,; Ambuscade, Arrow, Alacrity, Ardent, Avenger. The Type 21 frigate or Amazon-class were Royal Navy general-purpose escorts designed to be budget-fiendly in the late 1960s, built in the 1970s. They were active in the 1980s and 1990s, but two were sunk during the Falkland wars (Antelope and Ardent) … Read more
School Frigate (1966) F76. See notes. HMS Mermaid (F76) was a single frigate which spent only five years of service under British flag. She was not part of any official program, originally she was ordered for the Ghana Navy, launched and completed as a private venture. But when Ghana disengaged from the purchase, the order … Read more
Versatile RN Type 12 Improved Batch 3 Frigates (1967)Class: HMS Hermione, Andromeda, jupiter, Bacchante, Charybdis, Diomede, Achilles, Apollo, Ariadne. The “Broad Beam” Leander are the last evolution (and 3rd batch) of the Leander class Frigates, tha really defined a standard and met export success. They went to be the most successful (arguably) British frigate design … Read more
Royal Navy – 16 ships, service 1963-1990Leander, Ajax, Dido, Penelope, Aurora, Euryalus, Galatea, Arethusa, Naiad, Phoebe, Cleopatra, Minerva, Sirius, Juno, Argonaut, Danae. The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates comprised twenty-six ships, the most numerous and long-lived Frigate class of the Royal Navy in its modern history. It was built in three batches between 1959 … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 12M or Rothesay-class frigates: 12(21) ordered and completed (+ 2 RNZN, 3 SAFN), service 1960-1990: F101, 103, 106, 107, 108, 113, 115, 126, 129. The Rothesay or Type 12M frigates were a derivative of the 1950s Whitby class as 1st-rate ocean-going convoy escorts but there was so potential of the design it … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 81 or Tribal-class frigates: 7 ordered, 7 completed, service 1961-2000: Ashanti, Nubian, Gurkha, Eskimo, Tartar, Mohawk, Zulu F117, 131, 122, 119, 133, 125, 124. The British tradition of naming warships after tribes and peoples of the Empire and beyond, already sported by pre-WW1 British destroyers and 1937 Destroyers, was resurrected once last … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 61 or Salisbury-class frigates: 7 ordered, 4 completed, service 1957-1985(2015*): Salisbury, Chichester, Llandaff, Lincoln. The Type 61 Salisbury were initially planned as aircraft direction (AD) frigates, to provide radar picket duties ahead of a carrier task force, as well as vectoring aircraft operating in their area. But the project evolved into a … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 41 or Leopard-class frigates: 7 ships in Service 1957-2013* RN: HMS Leopard, Lynx, Puma, Jaguar RIN: INS Brahmaputra (ex-HMS Panther), Beas, Betwa The Type 41 or Leopard class were a new type of British Royal Navy anti-aircraft defence frigates. It consisted only of four ships, whereas three more were delivered to the … Read more
Royal Navy, AA frigates: 15 ships Service 1955-1988+ RN: Blackwood, Duncan, Dundas, Exmouth, Grafton, Hardy, Keppel, Malcolm, Murray, Palliser, Pellew, Russell. RIN: Khukri, Kirpan, Kuthar The Type 14 Blackwood class were a more austere variant of the Type 12 purpose-built ASW Frigates of the Royal Navy, a minimal “second-rate” anti-submarine type built in 1950s to … Read more
