HMS Salisbury (F32)

History
HMS Salisbury while serving as a harbour training ship in 1983. Radar antennae have been removed from the foremast and mainmast.
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Salisbury
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down:	23 January 1952
Launched:	25 June 1953
Completed:	27 February 1957
Identification:	Pennant number F32
Fate:	Sunk as a target 30 September 1985
General characteristics
Class and type:	Salisbury-class frigate
Displacement:	2,170 tons standard 2,400 tons full load
Length:	340 ft (100 m) o/a
Beam:	40 ft (12 m)
Draught:	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Propulsion:	8 × ASR1 diesels, 12,400 shp (9,200 kW), 2 shafts
Speed:	24 kn (44 km/h)
Range:	7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 16 kn (30 km/h)
Complement:	235
Sensors and processing systems:	Type 960 air search radar, later Type 965 AKE-2 Type 293Q target indication radar, later Type 993 and Antenna AKD Type 982 aircraft direction radar, laterType 986 and Antenna AKR Type 277Q height finding radar, later Type 278 and Antenna ANU(3) Type 974 navigation radarlater Type 978 and Antenna ATZ Type 275 fire control radar on director Mark 6M Type 262 fire control on STAAG mount Type 944/954 later Type 1010/1011 Cossor Mark 10 IFF Type 174 search sonar Type 170 attack sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	UA3J
Armament:	1 × twin 4.5 in gun Mark 6 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun STAAG Mark 2, later 1 × Sea Cat GWS-20 SAM 1 × Squid A/S mortar
Service record
Operations:	Beira Patrol (1975) Cod Wars (1976)

HMS Salisbury was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the British Royal Navy. Completed in the late 1950s, Salisbury served through the 1960s and 1970s, participating in the Beira Patrol, blockading against Rhodesia and the confrontation with Iceland over fishing rights that was known as the Cod Wars. Salisbury became a harbour training ship in 1980, before being sunk as a target in 1985.

The ship was built at Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth as the lead ship of the class. Salisbury was laid down on 23 January 1952, launched on 25 June 1953, and completed on 27 February 1957.

The Type 61 class were aircraft direction frigates, fitted with a sophisticated battery of radar equipment which was intended to provide guidance to carrier and shore-based aircraft against aerial targets. They shared a common hull design with the Leopard-class frigates, and like the Leopards, were powered by eight Admiralty Standard Range diesel engines driving two shafts, giving a total of 14,400 shaft horsepower (10,700 kW) and propelling the ship to a speed of 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph).

In 1959 Salisbury visited Cleveland, Ohio and was first RN warship on Lake Erie since 1812. At that time she was part of the 5th Frigate Squadron, serving in home waters, in the Mediterranean and in the Far East until August 1961. From 1961 to 1962 she was modernised with an improved radar suite, with Type 965 long-range radar fitted on a plated in Mack aft, replacing the previous Type 960 radar, and with the Type 293 target designation radar moved forward to a new foremast, while improved ESM equipment was also fitted.

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