HMS Tenby (F65)

HMS Tenby, May 1969
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Tenby
Ordered: 6 March 1951
Builder: Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead
Laid down: 23 June 1953
Launched: 4 October 1955
Commissioned: 18 December 1957
Decommissioned: 1972
Identification: Pennant number: F65
Fate:
  • Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up
  • Sold for scrapping in 1977
General characteristics
Class and type: Whitby-class frigate
Displacement:
  • 2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes)
  • 2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes)
Length:
  • 360 ft (109.7 m) w/l
  • 370 ft (112.8 m) o/a
Beam: 41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught: 17 ft (5.18 m)
Propulsion: Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h)
Range: 370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 152, later 225
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar Type 293Q target indication.
  • Radar Type 277Q height finding (later removed)
  • Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M
  • Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG
  • Radar Type 974 navigation
  • Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF
  • Sonar Type 174 search
  • Sonar Type 162 target classification
  • Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament:

HMS Tenby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. By the early 1970s, in the latter part of her career, she was one of three frigates which formed the Dartmouth Training Squadron and was used for the training of Royal Navy Officer Cadets before being promoted to Midshipmen.

The fake funeral of James Bond in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice was filmed onboard this ship, which was near Gibraltar at that time. In the film, it was supposed to be in Hong Kong.[1]

Decommissioning

HMS Tenby at Thos W Ward's Scrapyard, Briton Ferry, 1979

She was paid off into the reserve fleet on 8 December 1972 with the final ship's company leaving on 28 February 1973.

She spent four years laid up at Devonport prior to being sold to Thos W Ward for breaking up at Briton Ferry[2], the proposed sale to Pakistan being cancelled.[3]

Commanding officers

FromToCaptain
19571957Commander W R D Gerrard-Pearse RN
19591961Commander D E Parker RN
19621963Captain T Lewin DSC RN
19641965Captain Dalrymple-Hamilton RN, Captain (F) Dartmouth Training Squadron
19651966Lt Cdr C P O Byrne RN
1967?Cdr John Tait
1968?Cdr Robin Hogg

References

Notes

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062512/locations
  2. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/63467374@N04/5776353180/in/album-72157626716500339/
  3. ↑ http://www.jeffmays.talktalk.net/type12.htm

Bibliography

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
  • Marriott, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd, Surrey.


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