HMS Scarborough (F63)

	HMS Scarborough, February 1960
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Scarborough
Ordered	6 March 1951
Builder	Vickers Armstrongs, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down	11 September 1953
Launched	4 April 1955
Commissioned	10 May 1957
Decommissioned	1972
Identification	Pennant number: F63
Fate	Sold to Pakistan Navy in 1975 but not taken up; Sold for scrapping in 1977;
General characteristics
Class & type	Whitby-class frigate
Displacement	2,150 tons (2,185 tonnes); 2,560 tons full load (2,600 tonnes);
Length	360 ft (109.7 m) w/l; 370 ft (112.8 m) o/a;
Beam	41 ft (12.5 m)
Draught	17 ft (5.18 m)
Propulsion	Y-100 plant; 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 English Electric steam turbines, 2 shafts, 30,000 shp (22 MW)
Speed	30 kn (56 km/h)
Range	370 tons oil fuel, 4,200 nmi (7,780 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	152, later 225
Sensors &; processing systems	Radar Type 293Q target indication;; Radar Type 277Q height finding; Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mark 6M; Radar Type 262 fire control on STAAG; Radar Type 974 navigation; later Radar type 978; Type 1010 Cossor Mark 10 IFF; Sonar Type 174 search; Sonar Type 162 target classification; Sonar Type 170 attack;
Armament	1 × twin 4.5 in (114 mm) gun Mark 6; 1 × twin Bofors 40 mm L/60 gun Mark 2 STAAG, later;; 1 × single 40 mm Bofors gun Mark 7; 2 × Limbo A/S mortar Mark 10; 12 × 21 in A/S torpedo tubes (removed or never shipped);

HMS Scarborough was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. She was named after the town of Scarborough in the county of North Yorkshire.