HMS Lynx (F27)
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HMS Jaguar, another Leopard-class frigate
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Name | Lynx |
Ordered | 28 June 1951 |
Builder | John Brown & Company |
Laid down | 13 August 1953 |
Launched | 12 January 1955 |
Commissioned | 14 March 1957 |
Identification | Pennant number F 27 |
Fate | Sold to Bangladesh 12 March 1982 |
History | |
Bangladesh | |
Name | BNS Abu Bakr |
Acquired | 12 March 1982 |
Decommissioned | 22 January 2014 |
In service | 1982-2014 |
Fate | Scrapped 2014 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leopard-class frigate |
Length | 101 metres (331 ft) |
Beam | 10.6 metres (35 ft) |
Draught | 3 metres (9.8 ft) |
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Speed | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
Range | 2,200 miles (3,500 km) at 18 kn |
Complement | 200 (22 officers) |
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HMS Lynx (F27), was a
.She was laid down by John Brown & Company, Clydebank,[Scotland, on 13 August 1953, launched on 12 January 1955, and commissioned on 14 March 1957. On 12 March 1982 she was sold to the Bangladesh Navy and renamed BNS Abu Bakr. She was decommissioned and scrapped in 2014.
Construction and design
The Leopard-class, or Type 41, frigates were designed for a main role of providing anti-aircraft protection for convoys. As such they were provided with a heavy gun armament but did not require high speed. They shared a common hull and machinery with the Salisbury-class (or Type 61) aircraft direction frigates.[1][2]
Leopard was 339 ft 10+1⁄2 in (103.59 m)
The ship's main gun armament consisted of two twin
Lynx was laid down at John Brown & Company's Clydebank shipyard on 13 August 1953,[5] was launched on 12 January 1955 by Mary, Princess Royal[5][10] and commissioned on 14 March 1957,[5] as the first of her class.[11]
On commissioning Lynx served as the leader of the 7th Frigate Squadron,[12] with the squadron alternating between service in home waters and on the South Atlantic Station.[13] On 3 May 1960, Lynx, carrying out trials off Portsmouth, was diverted to search for survivors after a small fishing boat was sunk in a collision with the German tanker Caperata.[14] In September 1964, with tensions heightening between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute, an Argentine light aircraft landed on Port Stanley racecourse, and its pilot, Miguel Fitzgerald, planted an Argentine flag and handed a written proclamation of Argentine sovereignty to an islander before flying back to Argentina.[15] In response, Lynx, forming part of a task group off the coast of South America, was ordered to the Falklands, remaining there from 14 October to 11 November.[16]
In March 1967, following the disbanding of the South Atlantic station, Lynx was the last Royal Navy ship based at the
She was transferred to the
In November 2008, BNS Abu Bakr along with BNS Nirbhoy and BNS Madhumati intercepted Myanmar Navy ships at a disputed region of Bay of Bengal where they were supporting an exploration of oil and gas fields.[26]
She was decommissioned during a ceremony held in her homeport
See also
References
- ^ Gardiner & Chumbley 1995, pp. 511, 516
- ^ Marriott 1983, pp. 45, 51
- ^ a b Friedman 2008, p. 322
- ^ a b c Blackman 1971, p. 357
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Gardiner & Chumbley 1995, p. 516
- ^ Marriott 1983, p. 47
- ^ Friedman 2008, p. 205
- ^ a b Marriott 1983, p. 51
- ^ Friedman 2008, p. 206
- ^ "The Princess Royal Visits H.M.S. Lynx" (PDF). Navy News. No. 39. August 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ "First of the Leopard Class Frigates Commissioned: H.M.S. Lynx Accepted for Service" (PDF). Navy News. No. 35. April 1957. p. 1. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
- ^ Navy List, HMSO, January 1958
- ^ a b c Critchley 1992, p. 86
- ^ "Fishing Boat Sunk". The Times. No. 54762. 4 May 1960. p. 12. Retrieved 12 February 2022 – via Gale Primary Sources.
- ^ Burden et al. 1986, p. 458
- ^ Roberts 2009, p. 55
- ^ "Mystery barge found floating". The Straits Times. 19 September 1970. p. 18. Retrieved 13 February 2022 – via NewspaperSG.
- ^ "Drifting barge: No claim". The Straits Times. 22 September 1970. p. 8. Retrieved 13 February 2022 – via NewspaperSG.
- ^ "Sea crash: Big search". New Nation. 1 January 1973. p. 1. Retrieved 13 February 2022 – via NewspaperSG.
- ^ "We'll send copters to crash ships if asked: ANZUK". The Straits Times. 2 January 1973. p. 13. Retrieved 13 February 2022 – via NewspaperSG.
- ^ Lloyd's Casualty Return Quarter Ended 31st December 1972, p. 55
- ^ Official Souvenir Programme, 1977. Silver Jubilee Fleet Review, HMSO
- ^ "History of the Bangladesh Navy". Join Bangladesh Navy. Bangladesh Navy. Archived from the original on 16 August 2021. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
- ^ Shemul, Hasanuzzaman Talukdar (11 May 2009). "In war and Peace Invincible at Sea: Bangladesh Navy". Modern Ghana. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- Ships MonthlyApril 2014 page 14
- ^ "Myanmar brings warships to explore Bangladesh waters". The Daily Star. 3 August 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "BNS Abu Bakar, BNS Ali Haider de-commissioned". Dhaka Tribune. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
Bibliography
- Blackman, Raymond V.B. (1971). Jane's Fighting Ships 1971–72. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd.
- Burden, Rodney A.; Draper, Michael A.; Rough, Douglas A.; Smith, Colin A.; Wilton, David (1986). Falklands: The Air War. Twickenham, UK: British Air Review Group. ISBN 0-906339-05-7.
- Casualty Return: Merchant Ships Totally Lost, Broken Up, Etc., During the Quarter Ended 31st December 1972 (as reported up to 30 May, 1973 (PDF). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. September 1973. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
- 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.
- Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen, eds. (1995). Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland, USA: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
- Marriott, Leo (1983). Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: ISBN 0-7110-1322-5.
- Roberts, John (2009). Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy. Annapolis, Maryland, US: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-812-8.