HMS Ashanti (F117)
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| Name: | HMS Ashanti |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1958 |
| Launched: | 9 March 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 23 November 1961 |
| Reclassified: | Harbour Training Ship 1981 |
| Homeport: | Devonport |
| Identification: | Pennant number F117 |
| Motto: | Kum apim, apim beba':'Kill a thousand, a thousand will come |
| Fate: | Sunk as target 1988 |
| Badge: | On a Field barry wavy of six Blue and White a porcupine Gold. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Tribal-class frigate |
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| Awards: | 1967: General Service Medal, South Arabian Clasp |
HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Ashanti people, an ethnic group located in Ghana. The frigate was sunk as a target in 1988.
Ashanti was built by Yarrow, of Scotstoun, at a cost of £5,315,000 and was the first commissioned Royal Navy warship to be equipped with combined steam and gas (COSAG) engines. She was launched on 9 March 1959 and commissioned on 23 November 1961.
In 1962 malicious damage was reported aboard Ashanti.
Ashanti deployed to the Caribbean for trials in 1962. There, in early October, the ship suffered a failure in her COSAG engines, forcing the frigate's return to Britain. Subsequent tests discovered that the COSAG's machinery was defective, which caused blade fracturing in the gas turbine. Hull strengthening also found to be required
Ashanti was also used to trial the Westland Wasp helicopter, prior to its introduction to active service in 1964. The frigate conducted operations in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea for 10 months in 1963. In May 1965, Ashanti suffered minor damage in a collision with the Russian cargo ship Farab in the port of Mombassa, Kenya.
In 1966/67 Ashanti was deployed on the Beira Patrol. During that time she also spent a month in Aden having a gas turbine refit whilst some of the crew were seconded to the army as Britain withdrew from Aden. Given the Six-Day War, the Suez Canal being blocked, indecisiveness about whether to clear mines from the Gulf of Aqaba Ashanti headed home via the Cape of Good Hope, stopping off at Simon's Town.
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