HMS Alacrity (F174)
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Name | HMS Alacrity |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Commissioned | 2 July 1977 |
Decommissioned | 1 March 1994 |
Identification | Pennant number: F174 |
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Fate | Sold to Pakistan on 1 March 1994 |
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Name | PNS Badr |
Commissioned | 1 March 1994 |
Decommissioned | April 2013 |
Status | Decommissioned |
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Class and type | Type 21 frigate |
Displacement | 3,250 tons full load |
Length | 384 ft (117 m) |
Beam | 41 ft 9 in (12.73 m) |
Draught | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
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Speed | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
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Complement | 177 |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Westland Wasp helicopter, later refitted for 1 × Lynx |
HMS Alacrity was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy.
Alacrity was active during the
Background
Built by
1977–1981
In 1977, Alacrity took part in the
Falklands War
Alacrity participated in the Falklands War, departing Devonport on 5 April 1982 and captained by Commander Christopher Craig.
Alacrity was slightly damaged by an Argentine bomb on 1 May 1982.[3]
On the night of 10–11 May 1982 Alacrity was tasked to establish if the Argentines had mined the north entrance of
As Alacrity left the channel just before dawn, her sister ship Arrow was waiting to accompany her back to the Task Force, when the Argentine submarine, San Luis Captained by Fernando Azcueta fired two SST-4 torpedoes at a range of 5000 yards. One didn't leave its tube, the other missed and was heard to detonate after hitting the sea bottom.[7]
On 25 May, Alacrity sustained damage to her bow, while rescuing survivors from the SS Atlantic Conveyor, which had been struck by two Exocet missiles.[8]
1982–1994
As with the other surviving Type 21 frigates, Alacrity was suffering from cracking in her hull by the mid-1980s. She was taken in for refitting, and a steel plate was welded down each side of the ship.
In 1989, while deployed as West Indies guard ship, Alacrity was tasked for humanitarian relief on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies after the island suffered devastation in the wake of Hurricane Hugo. The ship's Lynx helicopter was the sole means of transporting aid ashore as the port was destroyed.[citation needed]
Alacrity was decommissioned and transferred to
Between 11 and 21 May 2008, Badr participated in Exercise Inspired Union, a multi-national exercises in the
Badr was decommissioned in April 2013 by the Pakistan Navy.
References
- ^ Official Souvenir Programme, 1977. Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, HMSO
- ^ Personal information, UK Parliament Hansard vol 981 Tuesday 25 March 1980
- ^ Battle Atlas of the Falklands War by Land, Sea and Air by Gordon Smith, 1989 - List of British ships lost and damaged
- ISBN 978-0-00-713467-0
- ISBN 950-742-976-X(in Spanish)
- ^ ARA Isla de los Estados - 1982 War
- ISBN 978-1-84-415888-1
- ^ Pakistan Navy as a four-strong group of frigate warships
- ^ Lt. (j.g.) Bryan Boggs, USN (6 June 2008). "USS Curts, Pakistani Navy Participate in Officer Exchange Program". NNS080602-12. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group Public Affairs. Retrieved 27 December 2010.