Tribal Class Frigates
Dear Sir or Madam,
This is a Freedom of Information Request, could you please list the fate of all the Tribal Class Frigates. If they were sold
please indicate the Buyer.
Yours faithfully,
Paul Ashby
Ex PO Jack Dusty
Dear DES SEC-PolSecJSC1b (Andrews, Chris Mrs),
Many thanks for your relpy but do you have any information on what happended to the rest of the class:-
HMS Gurkha
HMS Ashanti
HMS Zulu
HMS Nubian
HMS Eskimo
HMS Tartar
HMS Mohawk
Many thanks
Yours sincerely,
Paul Ashby
Mr Ashby
Apologies, my mistake, these were listed Type 81s, I did not realise they
were the same class. Details of the others are as follows:
┌───────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐
│NAME │DATE SOLD/DISPOSED OF│PURCHASER/FATE │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Ashanti│1988 │Sunk as Target │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Gurkha │1984 │Sold to Indonesia(renamed 332KRI │
│ │ │Wilhelmus Zakarias Yohanes │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Mohawk │1963 │Sold commercially for scrap │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Nubian │1987 │Sunk as Target │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Tartar │1984 │Sold to Indonesia renamed 333 KRI │
│ │ │Hasanuddiin) │
├───────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│HMS Zulu │1984 │Sold to Indonesia (renamed 331 KRI │
│ │ │Martha Kristina Tiyahahu) │
└───────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘
Regards
Chris Andrews
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Stephen Wenham left an annotation ()
Mohawk sold to Cairn Ryan breakers, arrived for breaking in Nov 1982.
Ghurkha, Tartar and Zulu sold to Indonesia in March 1984 and renamed Wilhelmus Zakarais Yohannes, Martha Kristina Tiyahahn and Hasanuddin. These units were refurbished by Vospers of Southampton and handed over in 1985/6. All decommissioned in the early 2000s fates unknown although one rumoured to have been wrecked during the 2006 Tsunami.
Nubian sunk as a target in May 1987 torpedoed by HM subs Odin and Trafalgar.
Ashanti sunk as a target in Sept 1988, torpedoed by HM subs Sceptre and Swiftsure.
Eskimo sold to Demolicion Naval Del Norte of Bilbao, arrived for breaking in May 1992.