KD Hang Tuah
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Mermaid.
KD Hang Tuah is a frigate formerly operated by the Royal Malaysian Navy from 1977 until 2018. She is now a museum ship. She was built in the United Kingdom, originally for the Ghana Navy, but was launched and completed as a private venture, before being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1972. She served for five years as HMS Mermaid (F76) before being purchased by Malaysia, where she replaced another ex-British frigate also called Hang Tuah. She became a training ship in 1992 and was refitted to replace obsolete weapons and machinery.
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KD Hang Tuah catches the morning sunlight while moored alongside at Pulau Labuan on 15 September 2007 | |
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Ghana | |
Name | Black Star |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun |
Yard number | 2284 |
Fate | Order canceled after Kwame Nkrumah deposed in February 1966 |
United Kingdom | |
Launched | 29 December 1966 |
Renamed | HMS Mermaid |
Commissioned | 16 May 1973 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Malaysian Navy in April 1977 |
Malaysia | |
Name | KD Hang Tuah |
Namesake | Hang Tuah |
Acquired | April 1977 |
Decommissioned | 2018 |
Status | Retired as 2018 and turned into a museum ship[1] |
General characteristics | |
Type | Type 41/Type 61 frigate |
Displacement | 2,300 long tons (2,337 t) standard |
Length | 103.5 m (339 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 12.2 m (40 ft 0 in) |
Draught | 4.9 m (16 ft 1 in) |
Propulsion | 8 × 16-cylinder ASR1 diesels, 14,400 shp (10,738 kW), 2 shafts |
Speed | 24 knots (28 mph; 44 km/h) |
Complement | 210 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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Aviation facilities | Helicopter landing platform |
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