BATTLESHIPS - CRUISERS - ESCORTS - LIGHT FORCES - AVIATION

4 - Rapp Class

Argus, Astrea, Antares, Argonaut

Type:
Fleet escort
Launched: 1945-46
Displacment 2500ton
Dimensions: 100x 10x 4m
Engine: Oil fired boilers, steam turbines,  Geared drive, 2 shafts, 87 150 shp / 65 014 Kw
Top speed: 22kts
Range 5000nm at 16,00 kts Click to enlarge



Crew: 180 (18 Officers, 42 NCO, 130 enlisted)
Sensors: Radars:Type-993/PS-03 C-band surface search, PE-01 Ku band FC radar
Sonar:
1x  ASDIC mk 1
Armament: Gun: 1x1 120/45 mm Bofors  m/24
6z2 40/60 m/36 Bofors  quick firing munts
Underwater
2x m/51 "Squid" 305mm 3 barrel ASW mortar
Aircraft
Facilites for one medium search aircraft
Sensors 1960Radar: Saturn CSF/PS-041 C-band air/ surface search,PE-71 Ku-band FC-radar
Sonar: Sonar 190 HF Fq , Sonar 192 MF Fq
Sonar 221 VDS
Arnament 1960Guns: 2x 57 m/50B 120rpm to 6-12km, 3x 40/48 L70 220rpm to 5-11km
Underwater:2x m/50 Bofors 375mm 4 barrel ASW rocket launcher, unguided to 1200m
Aircraft 1960Platform and hangar for one medium helicopter.
Notes 1 An agile and common escort destroyer built in large numbers for the RSwN during the war.. Reclassed as frigates in the 1950s.


Enginering Notes