HMS Jaguar (F37)
HMS Jaguar in 1963
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Jaguar |
Ordered | 28 June 1951 |
Builder | William Denny & Brothers |
Laid down | 2 November 1953 |
Launched | 20 July 1957 |
Commissioned | 12 December 1959 |
Identification | F37 |
Fate | Sold to Bangladesh 1978 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leopard-class frigate |
Length | 101 m (331 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 10.6 m (34 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 3 m (9 ft 10 in) |
Propulsion | |
Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
Range | 2,200 nmi (4,074 km; 2,532 mi) at 18 kn |
Complement | 200 (22 (app.) officers) |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
HMS Jaguar (F37), was a
William Denny & Brothers for the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of her class, she was fitted with controllable pitch propellers.[1]
The main armament originally consisted of two
STAAG mounting, which was soon replaced by a 40 mm gun.[2] She was refitted in the mid-1960s, replacing the Type 960 long-range air warning radar with Type 965. The lattice mainmast was replaced by a plated structure to support the heavier AKE1 aerial used by the Type 965. The Type 293Q target designation radar on the foremast was replaced by a Type 993. New ESM and SCCM equipment was installed on the foremast. It was intended that Seacat missile would replace the 40 mm gun but this was not done to save money.[3]
Jaguar sailed from
Third Cod War.[3] To protect her bows and stern from damage from collisions with Icelandic gunboats, she was fitted with heavy wooden sheathing.[8]
After a spell in reserve, she was sold on 6 July 1978 to the Bangladesh Navy for £2 million and commissioned in 1978 as BNS Ali Haider (F17).[3][9][10] Ali Haider was decommissioned during a ceremony held in her home port of Chittagong on 22 January 2014.[11][12] Name and number were taken by one of the two former Chinese Jianghu III-class frigates which reportedly had already begun their transfer voyage.
See also
References
- ISBN 0-7110-1915-0page 54.
- ^ Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Frigates since 1945, 2nd Edition, page 55. The photograph on page 55 shows Jaguar with the Type 960 and 293Q radars and without STAAG in 1964 – before her mid-60s refit.
- ^ a b c d Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Frigates since 1945, 2nd Edition, page 56.
- ^ "Royal Navy post-World War 2 CHRONOLOGY, Part 3 - 1961–70, by Geoffrey B Mason, Lieutenant Commander, RN (Rtd), 2007". Archived from the original on 5 August 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2010.
- ^ The National Archives - Piece reference ADM 330/80
- ^ "Ships collide off Iceland". Associated Press. 10 September 1973. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- ISBN 1904381359.
- ^ Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Frigates since 1945, 2nd Edition, pages 56–57.
- ISBN 0-85177-605-1page 23.
- ^ Gardiner, Robert Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995, page 516.
- ^ "BNS Abu Bakar, BNS Ali Haider de-commissioned". Dhaka Tribune. 22 January 2014. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- Ships MonthlyApril 2014 page 14
Publications
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Critchley, Mike (1992). British Warships Since 1945: Part 5: Frigates. Liskeard, UK: Maritime Press. ISBN 0-907771-13-0.
- Friedman, Norman (2008). British Destroyers & Frigates: The Second World War and After. Barnsley, UK: ISBN 978-1-84832-015-4.
- Marriott, Leo (1983). Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: ISBN 0-7110-1322-5.
See also
- List of ships of the Bangladesh Navy