Glasgow And Ships Of The Clyde

Arrival

Friday, July 3, 1964 @ 1715 		HMS KEPPEL ( 1956 - 1979 Blackwood-class frigate F 85 310 feet long of Royal Navy) Own Page

HMS KEPPEL Royal Naval Blackwood-class frigate pays a courtesy visit to Glasgow
Arrived fromTail of the Bank (the anchorage off Greenock)Port of RegistryAdmiralty, London (England, UK)
Arrived in berthMerklands Quay, Glasgow
Draught forward on arrival10' 5"
Draught aft on arrival15 feet
Cargo carried on arrivalVisiting

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)
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