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F-451 Lymnos

F-451 Lymnos

Country: GreeceGreece

Class, [Type]: Kortenaer, [FF].

Builder: Koninklijke Maatschappij De Shelde, Flushing, Netherlands.

Launch date: 27th October 1979.

Commission date: 24th April 1980.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.050 standard, 3.630 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 130,5 x 14,6 x 6,2

Main machinery: COGOG: 2 x RR Tyne RM1C gas turbines ( 9.900 hp ), 2 x RR Olympus TM3B gas turbines ( 50.880 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30.

Range ( miles ): 4.700 at 16 knots on Tynes.

Complement: 176 ( 17 officers ).

Guns: 2 x OTO Melara 76mm/62 Compact, 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon, in two quad launchers ( 16 missiles carried ); SAM: 24 x Raytheon Sea Sparrow.

Torpedoes: 4 x 324mm Mk 32 tubes ( two triple mountings ). 16 x Honeywell Mk 46 mod 1 or 2.

Radar: Air: Signaal LW 08, D band and 264km ( 145 mn ) range; Surface: Signaal ZW 06, I band; Fire Control: Signaal STIR.

Sonar: Canadian Westinghouse SQS 505, hull mounted. Active search and attack modes.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 2 x Loral Hycor SRBOC Mk 36 launchers for infrared flares and chaff ; ESM: Elettronica Sphinx ( radar warning ); ECM: Elettronica Ramses ( jammer ).

Helicopter: 2 x AB212 ASW.

Callsign: SZCS (SierraZuluCharlieSierra)

Comment: Former Netherlands Navy F813 Witte de With. This ship was sold to Greece while it was being built for the Netherlands Navy. The hangar is 2 meters longer than in her dutch sisters, in order to have space for 2 x AB212 ASW helicopters.

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