| Specifications
Displacement: 6,800 tons full load
Dimensions: 158.9 x 16.4 x 6.3 meters (521.5 x 54 x 20.5
feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, COSAG;
Geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock and Wilcox boilers,
30,000 shp;
4 Rolls Royce Olympus G6 gas turbines, 30,000 shp;
30 knots
Crew: 471
Aviation
Helicopter: deck and hangar for 1 Westland
Wessex, with homing torpedoes and dipping sonar.
Surface Action
Guns:
2 - 4.5"/45 Mk.6 DP twin mounts ('B' mount later removed for Exocet in some)
Missiles: 1 twin Seaslug launcher
for Seaslug Mk.2 missiles (last 4 ships)
4 MM-38 Exocet (NORFOLK, ANTRIM, FIFE, and GLAMORGAN
after 1974)
Radar: Type 992Q/993
surface/low-level air search
Fire Control: Type 901 Seaslug tracker.
Air Defence
Guns:
6 - 45"/45 Mk.6 DP twin mounts
2 - 20mm single mounts
Missiles: 1 twin Seaslug launcher
for Seaslug Mk.1 missiles (Mk.2 in last 4 ships)
2 quad Seacat GWS21 launchers (GWS22 in later ship)
Radar: Type 965
AKE-1 or -2 air search
Type 277/278 air search
Fire Control: Type 903/904 tracker for MRS3 (Medium Range System
No.3)
Type 901 Seaslug tracker
Undersea Warfare
Armament: Helicopter
launched torpedoes.
Sonar:
Type 170,
Type 174/177 medium range seach
(replaced by Type 184)
Electronic
Warfare
Attack:
ESM:
ComInt:
Ships:
Name
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Pendant
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Completed
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Comments
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Fate
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DEVONSHIRE
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D 02
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1962
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For sale to Egypt to carry 6 Lynx helos; not completed.
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Disposed, 1978.
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HAMPSHIRE
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D 06
|
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Paid off 1976, scrapped.
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LONDON
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D 16
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1963
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Planned conversion to minelayer; not completed.
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Pakistan, 1982.
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KENT
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D 12
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1963
|
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Alongside training ship, 1980
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FIFE
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D 20
|
1966
|
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Chilean BLACO ENCALADA
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GLAMORGAN
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D 19
|
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Damaged by bombs and Exocet, Falkland's, 1982.
|
Chilean LATORRE
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ANTRIM
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D 18
|
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Damaged by bombs, Falkland's, 1982.
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Chilean COCHRANE
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NORFOLK
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D 21
|
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Trials
ship for Exocet.
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Chilean PRAT
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Photos:
(click on thumbnail for bigger image)
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A port-stern
quarter view of ANTRIM. This photo shows the Seaslug launcher at the stern
to good effect, and also the Type 901 Seaslug tracker radar can be seen atop
the hangar. As one of the last four of the class, she is fitted with the
Type 965 AKE-2 "double-bedstead" radar antenna on the aft mast. M.D. Thomas
photo. |
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A broadside
view of DEVONSHIRE taken in Portsmouth. HMS VICTORY can be seen in the background.
The Type 965 AKE-1 "single-bedstead" radar, typical of the first four members
of the class, is atop the aft mast. M.D. Thomas photo.
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Taken on the
port side of FIFE, this photo shows the helicopter hangar for a single Westland
Wessex helicopter. The port Seacat missile launcher can be seen in the centre
of the photo. The Type 277 radar antenna can be seen to the left of the photo,
under and aft of the Type 965. A single 20mm mount is directly above the
Seacat launcher, above the hangar. M.D. Thomas photo.
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HAMPSHIRE is
shown here, illustrating the appearance of the ships when fitted with both
twin 4.5" mounts. The 992Q or 993 radar antenna can be seen at the top of
the forward mast. M.D. Thomas photo.
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GLAMORGAN after the
replacement of 'B' mount with four Exocet box launchers. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A nice view of KENT.
M.D. Thomas photo.
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LONDON steams by the
camera. The hangar door is closed in this picture, which can be contrasted
to the open door in the earlier photo of FIFE. M.D. Thomas photo.
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A close-up of the
Seaslug launcher on NORFOLK. The missiles were assembled within the superstructure,
and then slid out through ports (to the right of the launcher in this photo)
into the launcher. M.D. Thomas photo.
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