HMS Tenby (F65)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Tenby.

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Tenby
Ordered:	6 March 1951
Builder:	Cammell Laird and Co Ltd, Birkenhead
Laid down:	23 June 1953
Launched:	4 October 1955
Commissioned:	18 December 1957
Decommissioned:	1972
Identification:	Pennant number: F65
Fate:	Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up Sold for scrapping in 1977
General characteristics
Class & type:	Whitby-class frigate
Displacement:	2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes) 2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes)
Length:	360 ft (109.7 m) w/l 370 ft (112.8 m) o/a
Beam:	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught:	17 ft (5.18 m)
Propulsion:	Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed:	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range:	370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement:	152, later 225
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar Type 293Q target indication, later; Radar Type 993 Radar Type 277Q height finding (later removed) Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG Radar Type 974 navigation Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF Sonar Type 174 search Sonar Type 162 target classification Sonar Type 170 attack
Armament:	1 × twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6 1 × twin 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 2 STAAG, later; 1 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10 12 × 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped)

HMS Tenby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. By the early 1970s, in the latter part of her career, she was one of three frigates which formed the Dartmouth Training Squadron and was used for the training of Royal Navy Officer Cadets before being promoted to Midshipmen.

Use in popular culture

The fake funeral of James Bond in the 1967 movie You Only Live Twice was filmed onboard this ship, which was near Gibraltar at that time. In the movie, it was supposed to be in Hong Kong.

Decommissioning

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HMS Tenby at Ward's Scrapyard, Briton Ferry, 1979

She was paid off into the reserve fleet on 8 December 1972 with the final ship's company leaving on 28 February 1973. She spent four years laid up at Devonport prior to being sold to Thomas W Ward for breaking up at Briton Ferry, the proposed sale to Pakistan being cancelled.

Commanding Officers

From	To	Captain
1957	1957	Commander W R D Gerrard-Pearse RN
1959	1961	Commander D E Parker RN
1962	1963	Captain T Lewin DSC RN
1964	1965	Captain Dalrymple-Hamilton RN, Captain (F) Dartmouth Training Squadron
1965	1966	Lt Cdr C P O Byrne RN

Publications

• Marriott, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd, Surrey.

External links

• HMS Tenby Association
• Video of HMS Tenby