HMS Alacrity (F 174)

GPTKB entity

Properties (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Royal_Navy_ship
gptkbp:aircraft gptkb:Westland_Lynx
gptkbp:armament gptkb:Sea_Wolf_missiles
gptkbp:battle gptkb:Royal_Navy
gptkbp:builder gptkb:Yarrow_Shipbuilders
gptkbp:class gptkb:Frigate
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Captain_John_Smith
gptkbp:commissioned 1980
Queen Elizabeth II
gptkbp:constructedIn gptkb:Scotland
gptkbp:crew around 200 personnel
gptkbp:decommissioned 1994
Royal_Navy.
gptkbp:deployedTo gptkb:Persian_Gulf
1994
1994.
gptkbp:displacement gptkb:Light_Frigate
3,500 tons
gptkbp:engineType gptkb:MTU_20V_956_TB91
gptkbp:famous_for Patrolling_the_North_Sea.
gptkbp:fate sold for scrap
gptkbp:home_port gptkb:Portsmouth
gptkbp:homePort gptkb:Portsmouth
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label HMS Alacrity (F 174)
gptkbp:launched 1978
gptkbp:length 118 meters
gptkbp:navalFleet gptkb:Home_Fleet
gptkbp:notable_event First ship to intercept a submarine.
Intercepted_a_Soviet_submarine.
gptkbp:notableEvent Exercise Lionheart.
Operation Shader.
gptkbp:notableOperations Operation Granby.
gptkbp:operates_in gptkb:Royal_Canadian_Navy
gptkb:Royal_Australian_Navy
gptkbp:operational_area North_Atlantic
gptkbp:operational_status decommissioned
gptkbp:operationalHistory Active for 14 years.
gptkbp:operationalRange Unlimited range with replenishment.
gptkbp:origin Alacrity means eagerness or willingness.
gptkbp:participatesIn NATO_exercises
gptkbp:propulsion Gas turbine engines
gptkbp:radar Type 1007
gptkbp:replacedBy HMS Montrose (F 236)
gptkbp:role Anti-submarine warfare
Surface warfare
gptkbp:secondary_mission Humanitarian assistance.
1994.
gptkbp:servedIn gptkb:Gulf_War
gptkb:Falklands_War
gptkb:British_flag
gptkbp:sister_ship gptkb:HMS_Active_(F_171)
gptkbp:sonar Type 205
gptkbp:speed 30 knots
gptkbp:successor Type 23 frigate
gptkbp:type General_Purpose_Frigate