ARROW HMS 1976
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:22 pm
Built as a frigate under yard No 1009 by Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
28 September 1972 keel laid down.
05 February 1974 launched as the HMS ARROW one of the Amazon class (Type 21).
Displacement 2.860 standard, 3.360 full load, dim. 117.04 x 12.73 x 5.94m. (draught).
Powered by COGOG 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 56.000 bhp and 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines for cruising, 8.500 shp., twin screws, full speed 30 knots, cruising 18 knots.
Range 4.000 mile by a speed of 17 knots.
Armament: 4 – MM38 Exocet missiles. 1 quadruple Sea Cat SAM’s. 1 – 4.5 inch Mark 8 gun, 2 – Oerlikons 200mm AA guns. 2 – 324mm triple ASW torpedo tubes.
Carried on Lynx or Wasp helicopter.
Crew 177.
29 July 1976 completed.
The class was designed by Vosper Thornycroft and Yarrow and include remote control of the engine room from the bridge.
The class can hold supplies on board for sixty days.
The ships are fragile and vulnerable as well as overloaded and top-heavy, and the class carry permanent ballast.
She took part in the Falkland War, already the first day in the Falkland Islands waters (01 May 1982)was she strafed by three Argentinean Skyhawks with there boardguns, in which the ARROW was slightly damaged and got one man wounded.
By the mid 1980 the hull of the ARROW was suffering from cracking, and proceeded to a yard for a refit and strengthening. A steel plate was welded alongside both sides of the hull.
01 March 1994 decommissioned, and transferred to the navy of Pakistan the same day.
Her Exocet and Sea Cat missiles were removed and replaced by a quadruple Harpoon missile launcher and 1 Phalanx C1WS missile.
She was renamed PNS KHAIBAR (F183), the third vessel in the Pakistan Navy that carried this name. The name comes from a famous battle in 629 AD during which the seemingly impregnable fortress of Khaibar was overcome by Muslim forces led by Hazrat Ali under the guidance of the Holy Prophet Muhammad.
2022 In service.
Gibraltar 1992 20p sg674, scott606.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Arrow_(F173) Watercraft Philately 2003/65.
The Encyclopedia of Warships.
28 September 1972 keel laid down.
05 February 1974 launched as the HMS ARROW one of the Amazon class (Type 21).
Displacement 2.860 standard, 3.360 full load, dim. 117.04 x 12.73 x 5.94m. (draught).
Powered by COGOG 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines, 56.000 bhp and 2 Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1A gas turbines for cruising, 8.500 shp., twin screws, full speed 30 knots, cruising 18 knots.
Range 4.000 mile by a speed of 17 knots.
Armament: 4 – MM38 Exocet missiles. 1 quadruple Sea Cat SAM’s. 1 – 4.5 inch Mark 8 gun, 2 – Oerlikons 200mm AA guns. 2 – 324mm triple ASW torpedo tubes.
Carried on Lynx or Wasp helicopter.
Crew 177.
29 July 1976 completed.
The class was designed by Vosper Thornycroft and Yarrow and include remote control of the engine room from the bridge.
The class can hold supplies on board for sixty days.
The ships are fragile and vulnerable as well as overloaded and top-heavy, and the class carry permanent ballast.
She took part in the Falkland War, already the first day in the Falkland Islands waters (01 May 1982)was she strafed by three Argentinean Skyhawks with there boardguns, in which the ARROW was slightly damaged and got one man wounded.
By the mid 1980 the hull of the ARROW was suffering from cracking, and proceeded to a yard for a refit and strengthening. A steel plate was welded alongside both sides of the hull.
01 March 1994 decommissioned, and transferred to the navy of Pakistan the same day.
Her Exocet and Sea Cat missiles were removed and replaced by a quadruple Harpoon missile launcher and 1 Phalanx C1WS missile.
She was renamed PNS KHAIBAR (F183), the third vessel in the Pakistan Navy that carried this name. The name comes from a famous battle in 629 AD during which the seemingly impregnable fortress of Khaibar was overcome by Muslim forces led by Hazrat Ali under the guidance of the Holy Prophet Muhammad.
2022 In service.
Gibraltar 1992 20p sg674, scott606.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Arrow_(F173) Watercraft Philately 2003/65.
The Encyclopedia of Warships.