HMS Blackpool (F77)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Blackpool
Ordered:	6 March 1951
Builder:	Harland and Wolff, Belfast
Laid down:	20 December 1954
Launched:	14 February 1957
Commissioned:	14 August 1958
Out of service:	Leased to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966– 30 June 1971
Identification:	Pennant number: F77
Fate:	Sold for scrapping in 1978
General characteristics
Class and 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 Blackpool was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy.

Service history

Blackpool was leader of the 6th Frigate Squadron between 1958 and 1960.^[1] Between 1964 and 1966 she was leader of the 28th Escort Squadron.^[2]

She was leased to the Royal New Zealand Navy between 7 June 1966 and 30 June 1971. In 1969, Blackpool was present at the Melbourne-Evans collision.

Commanding officers

From	To	Captain
1958	1960	Captain Edward B. Ashmore RN
1960	1962
1964	1966	Captain Duncan D Moore RN
16 June 1966	23 October 1967	Commander Joseph I Quinn RNZN
23 October 1967	18 March 1968	Lieut Commander Michael N Waymouth RNZN
18 March 1968	15 October 1969	Commander Derek J Cheney RNZN
15 October 1969	24 May 1970	Commander Ian H D Tyler RNZN
24 May 1970	6 July 1970	Commander Joseph I Quinn RNZN
6 July 1970	30 June 1971	Commander Robert E Lawry RNZN
See also Frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy References Royal Navy Senior Appointments, Colin Mackie Royal Navy Senior Appointments, Colin Mackie Publications Alabama Gerry Wright, The story of HMNZS Blackpool (Wellington: Printshop, 2012).