HMS Malcolm (F88)
HMS Malcolm in January 1958 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Malcolm |
| Namesake | Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, GCB and GCMG |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun |
| Laid down | 1 February 1954 |
| Launched | 18 October 1955 |
| Commissioned | 12 December 1957 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F88 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1978 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Blackwood-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,180 tons |
| Length | 310 ft 0 in (94.49 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion | Two Babcock & Wilcox 550psi boilers were fitted with two English Electric steam turbines producing a total of 15,000 shp (11 MW) on one shaft |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range | 5,200 nmi (9,630 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h) |
| Complement | 140 |
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HMS Malcolm was a Blackwood-class, one of a dozen second-rate anti-submarine frigates built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s. She was commissioned on 12 December 1957 and decommissioned in 1978. She was the second Royal Navy ship to be bear the name, and was named after Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.