Proposed Royal Navy Type 11 ASW Frigate.

[M. A. Rozon]

Associated with the Type 41 and Type 61 diesel-powered frigates was the proposed Type 11 ASW frigate with a maximum speed of 24 knots and using the same propulsion system.

A search of this forum and elsewhere on the internet has yielded no specific information or graphics for this ship. i'm re-reading my D. K. Brown and other reference books but as yet I have found nothing.

Believe it or not, I found a 3-D printing file for this ship on Thingiverse but I'm understandably unsure of it's accuracy. With that in mind, I am hoping someone on this forum has had better luck. If that is you, can you please post up.

Thanks.

 

[Yellow Palace]

Associated with the Type 41 and Type 61 diesel-powered frigates was the proposed Type 11 ASW frigate with a maximum speed of 24 knots and using the same propulsion system.

A search of this forum and elsewhere on the internet has yielded no specific information or graphics for this ship. i'm re-reading my D. K. Brown and other reference books but as yet I have found nothing.

Believe it or not, I found a 3-D printing file for this ship on Thingiverse but I'm understandably unsure of it's accuracy. With that in mind, I am hoping someone on this forum has had better luck. If that is you, can you please post up.

Thanks.

As far as I know, there's no definitive evidence that drawings, or even a full specification, were ever written up for the A/S version of the Common Hull Frigate. Certainly it was abandoned before the Type system was established, and the Type 11 designation is more a suggestive gap than an actual allocation.

 

[Pirate Pete]

This is a screen grab from Brown's 'Rebuilding the Royal Navy', more for the benefit of any members who might not have access to the publication. It does indicate the somewhat 'apocryphal' nature of the Type 11 designation....

 

[Yellow Palace]

Friedman goes into a bit more detail. The common hull frigate, in A/S, A/A and A/D versions was planned from late in WW2, there's a little information on what that would entail but no drawings. By 1947 it was clear that the A/S ship needed to exceed 25 knots. The available diesel plants couldn't produce enough power for that speed, and the available steam plants needed too much fuel for the specified range. Thus the A/S version was abandoned and design for what became the WHITBY class was started.

The Type scheme wasn't introduced until 1949, when talk of first-rate, second-rate, third-rate, limited conversions, improved limited conversions, and so forth got confusing. Friedman hypothesises that Type 11 was unused to avoid confusion with the Type II Hunt class, rather than being allocated to a by-then-abandoned diesel frigate.