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HMS GURKHA

PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:10 am
by MadMaxLab
HMS GURKHA   28-3-1971.jpg
TYNE 28/3/1971

Re: HMS GURKHA

PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:49 pm
by Dennis Maccoy
A little later, with an enthusiatic crowd of visitors on board.
Gurkha Newcastle, 28 March 1971_1.jpg
Gurkha & Rapid, Newcastle, 28 March 1971_1.jpg
And with Rapid in the distance

Re: HMS GURKHA

PostPosted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:19 pm
by magoonigal
GURKHA.
Type 81 Frigate. John I Thornycroft, Launched 10th July 1960.
2,300 Tons Displacement
360ft x 42.5ft.
2 x 4.5in, 2 x 40mm, Limbo, Helo.
Sold to Indonesia in April 1984 and renamed WILHEMUS ZAKARIAS YOHANNES.
Deleated 2000.

RAPID is about the same length but is 7ft less in beam looks tiny in comparison........but thats all got to do with Big Cows and Little Cows........Father Ted Joke. :lol: