Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Ship: H.M.S. KEPPEL ( 1956 - 1979 Blackwood-class frigate F 85 310 feet long of Royal Navy)

Port of Registry: Admiralty, London
Net Tonnage: -
Reg Tonnage: -
Gross Tonnage: -
Deadweight Tonnage: -

Details from Wikipedia :
Career RN Ensign
Name: HMS Keppel
Namesake: Augustus Keppel
Builder: Yarrow, Scotstoun
Laid down: 27 March 1953
Launched: 31 August 1954
Commissioned: 6 July 1956
Identification: Pennant number: F85
Fate: Scrapped 1979
General characteristics
Class & type: Blackwood-class frigate
Displacement: 1,456 tons (1,479 tonnes) full load)
Length: 310 ft (94 m) overall
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: Y-100 plant; 2 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, steam turbines on 1 shaft, 15,000 shp (11 MW)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range: 5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 112
Sensors and
processing systems:
Radar Type 974 navigation
Sonar Type 174 search
Sonar Type 162 target classification
Sonar Type 170 targeting
Armament:
3 x 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7 (quarterdeck mount later removed)
2 x Limbo Mark 10 A/S mortars

On 29th April 1979 she arrived at Sittingbourne (Kent, England) for breaking up.