HMS Aurora (F10)
Aurora post IKARA conversion | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Aurora |
| Builder | John Brown & Company |
| Cost | £4.65m |
| Yard number | 721 |
| Laid down | 1 June 1961 |
| Launched | 28 November 1962 |
| Commissioned | 9 April 1964 |
| Recommissioned | 5 August 1967 |
| Decommissioned | 28 April 1987 |
| Refit | Converted to IKARA Batch 1b Leander 4 December 1974 – 27 February 1976 – Chatham Dockyard. Conversion cost £15.58m |
| Homeport | Chatham |
| Identification | Pennant number: F10 |
| Motto | Post Tenebras Lux: 'After darkness light' |
| Fate | Arrived for scrapping 6 September 1990 at Millom, Cumbria |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement | 2,500 tons standard, 2,962 tons full load |
| Length | 113.4 m (372 ft 1 in) |
| Beam | 13.1 m (43 ft 0 in) |
| Draught | 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) |
| Propulsion | 2 Babcock & Wilcox oil-fired boilers, geared steam turbines, 22,370 kilowatts (30,000 hp), 2 shafts |
| Speed | 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) |
| Range | 7,400 kilometres (4,600 mi; 4,000 nmi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 260 |
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HMS Aurora was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like other ships of the class, Aurora was named after a figure of mythology, Aurora being the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Eos.