Look what came through the locks and tied up at my dock yesterday. At 133 meters long, (over 400 feet), this is the largest ship I've seen here in Canary Wharf. Just back from 3 months of duty off the coast of Somali these British sailors get a well deserved break. This is a stop that the Royal Navy uses on occasion so I've seen several Navy ships here
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HMS St Albans - Royan Navy Frigate Type 23
Class and type: Frigate
Displacement: 4,900 metric tons (4,800 long tons)[1]
Length: 133m (436ft 4in)[1][2]
Beam: 16.1m (52ft 10in)[1][2]
Draught: 5m (16ft 5in)[3]
18 ft (5.5 m) screws[2]
24 ft (7.3 m) sonar[2]
Propulsion: CODLAG with four 1510kW (2025-shp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators powering two GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000 shp) and two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A delivering 23,190kW (31,100 shp) to two shafts.
Thanks for the information. This is an impressive ship. What would be the maxium speed
The Type 23 can probably do 30 knots however long range sustained speed is more like 26. Of course they are sitting ducks with their ASW sonar largely useles at high speed.
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