16 ships completed 1990-2002 (3 to Chilean Navy), 4 active 2026 The Type 23 were the last cold war Royal Navy Frigates, with a development that went back to the late 1970s. This is also the last class of that era still with us today. They became in the post cold war years, the core … Read more
Versatile RN Type 12 Improved Batch 3 Frigates (1967)Class: HMS Hermione, Andromeda, jupiter, Bacchante, Charybdis, Diomede, Achilles, Apollo, Ariadne. The “Broad Beam” Leander are the last evolution (and 3rd batch) of the Leander class Frigates, tha really defined a standard and met export success. They went to be the most successful (arguably) British frigate design … Read more
Royal Navy – 16 ships, service 1963-1990Leander, Ajax, Dido, Penelope, Aurora, Euryalus, Galatea, Arethusa, Naiad, Phoebe, Cleopatra, Minerva, Sirius, Juno, Argonaut, Danae. The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates comprised twenty-six ships, the most numerous and long-lived Frigate class of the Royal Navy in its modern history. It was built in three batches between 1959 … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 12M or Rothesay-class frigates: 12(21) ordered and completed (+ 2 RNZN, 3 SAFN), service 1960-1990: F101, 103, 106, 107, 108, 113, 115, 126, 129. The Rothesay or Type 12M frigates were a derivative of the 1950s Whitby class as 1st-rate ocean-going convoy escorts but there was so potential of the design it … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 81 or Tribal-class frigates: 7 ordered, 7 completed, service 1961-2000: Ashanti, Nubian, Gurkha, Eskimo, Tartar, Mohawk, Zulu F117, 131, 122, 119, 133, 125, 124. The British tradition of naming warships after tribes and peoples of the Empire and beyond, already sported by pre-WW1 British destroyers and 1937 Destroyers, was resurrected once last … Read more
Royal Navy, Type 61 or Salisbury-class frigates: 7 ordered, 4 completed, service 1957-1985(2015*): Salisbury, Chichester, Llandaff, Lincoln. The Type 61 Salisbury were initially planned as aircraft direction (AD) frigates, to provide radar picket duties ahead of a carrier task force, as well as vectoring aircraft operating in their area. But the project evolved into a … Read more
