HMS Eskimo (F119)

History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Eskimo
Operator:	Royal Navy
Builder:	J. Samuel White
Laid down:	22 October 1958
Launched:	20 March 1960
Commissioned:	21 February 1963
Decommissioned:	August 1980
Identification:	F 119
Motto:	Sikumi Ungaskitumi ("Fire and Ice")
Fate:	Scrapped in 1992
General characteristics
Class and type:	Tribal-class frigate
Displacement:	2,300 long tons (2,300 t) standard 2,700 long tons (2,700 t) full load
Length:	360 ft 0 in (109.73 m) oa 350 ft 0 in (106.68 m) pp
Beam:	42 ft 3 in (12.88 m)
Draught:	13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) (propellers)
Propulsion:	Single-shaft COSAG 1 Steam turbine 12,500 shp (9,300 kW) 1 Metrovick G-6 gas turbine 7,500 shp (5,600 kW)
Speed:	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) (COSAG)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	253
Sensors and processing systems:	Radar type 965 air-search Radar type 993 low-angle search Radar type 978 navigation Radar type 903 gunnery fire-control Radar type 262 GWS-21 fire-control Sonar type 177 search Sonar type 170 attack Sonar type 162 bottom profiling Ashanti and Gurkha; Sonar type 199 variable-depth
Armament:	2 × single 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mark 5* Mod 1 guns 2 × single 40 mm Mark 7 Bofors guns, later; 2 × four-rail GWS-20 Sea Cat missile systems 2 × single 20 mm Oerlikon guns 1 × Mark 10 Limbo ASW mortar
Aircraft carried:	1 × Westland Wasp helicopter

HMS Eskimo was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy in service from 1963 to 1980. She was scrapped in 1992.

Eskimo was built by J. Samuel White, of Cowes, at a cost of £4,670,000. The frigate was launched on 20 March 1960 and commissioned on 21 February 1963 with the pennant number F119.

Eskimo began her third commission in October 1966. In 1967, Eskimo transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet, with which the ship took part in a number of port visits and exercises. In June, Eskimo replaced her sistership Ashanti off Aden in response to the start of the Six-Day War. In 1968 she took part in Portsmouth 'Navy Days'.

In 1976, Eskimo served as the West Indies Guardship. She escorted Queen Elizabeth II aboard Britannia as part of America's Bi-Centennial celebrations. Eskimo returned to the Caribbean in 1977.

Due to a manpower shortage in the Royal Navy,Eskimo was reduced to the reserve in 1980, being placed into the Standby Squadron, and in 1981 was put on the disposal list. In 1984 she was cannibalised for spare parts for three Tribal-class frigates sold to Indonesia. On 16 January 1986, Eskimo was towed from Portsmouth to Pembroke Dock to be used as a target, but was not used as such. In May 1992 she was towed from Pembroke to Bilbao, Spain to be scrapped.

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