HMS Shalford
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Shalford (P3101) |
| Operator: |  Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Yarrow |
| Completed: | 21 August 1952 |
| Fate: | Sold 8 September 1967 to Singapore for break up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Ford class seaward defence boat |
| Displacement: | 120 tons standard 160 tons full load |
| Length: | 117 ft 3 in (35.7 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Draught: | 6 ft 6 in (2.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × Foden diesel (Centre shaft) 2 × Paxman 12YHAX 550hp Diesels (Outer shafts) |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Complement: | 19 |
| Armament: | 1 × 40 mm anti-aircraft gun 2 × 20 mm anti aircraft guns |
HMS Shalford was one of 20 boats of the Ford class of patrol boats built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ford. This boat was named after Shalford.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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