HMS Blackpool (F77)

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|Ship country=United Kingdom

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|Ship name=HMS Blackpool

|Ship ordered=6 March 1951

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|Ship builder=Harland and Wolff, Belfast

|Ship laid down=20 December 1954

|Ship launched=14 February 1957

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|Ship commissioned=14 August 1958

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|Ship out of service=Leased to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966– 30 June 1971

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|Ship identification=Pennant number: F77

|Ship fate=Sold for scrapping in 1978

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|Ship class={{sclass|Whitby|frigate|1}}

|Ship displacement=*2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes)

• 2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes)

|Ship length=*{{convert|360|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} w/l

• {{convert|370|ft|m|1|abbr=on}} o/a

|Ship beam={{convert|41|ft|m|1|abbr=on}}

|Ship draught={{convert|17|ft|m|2|abbr=on}}

|Ship propulsion=Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)

|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn|km/h|0|abbr=on}}

|Ship range=370 tons oil fuel, {{convert|4200|nmi|km

|Ship complement=152, later 225

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• 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

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|Ship armament=

• 1 × twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6
• 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG, later;
• 1 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7
• 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10
• 12 × 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped)

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