HMS Arrow (F173)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 28 September 1972 |
| Launched: | 5 February 1974 |
| Commissioned: | 28 July 1976 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 March 1994 |
| Fate: | Sold to Pakistan on 1 March 1994. |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 3,250 tons full load |
| Length: | 384 ft (117 m) |
| Beam: | 41 ft 9 in (12.7 m) |
| Draught: | 19 ft 6 in (5.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Two Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines, plus two Rolls-Royce RM1A Tyne gas turbines for cruising |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,000 nautical miles at 17 knots (7,400 km at 31 km/h), 1,200 nautical miles at 30 knots (2,220 km at 56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 177 |
| Armament: | One Mk8 4.5 inch (110 mm) gun Two 20 mm Oerlikon guns Four SeaCat SAMs Two Corvus chaff launchers One Type 182 towed decoy |
| Aircraft: | One Westland Wasp when built, refitted later for one Westland Lynx |
| Motto: | Celeriter certus (Swiftly sure) |
HMS Arrow (F173) was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position.
Arrow participated in the Falklands War, where on 4 May 1982 she assisted in extinguishing the fires and evacuating the crew of the Type 42 destroyer Sheffield, which had been struck by an Exocet missile. Arrow also helped extinguish the fires on the Whitby-class frigate Plymouth, on 8 June 1982.
By the mid- 1980s Arrow was suffering from cracking in her hull. She was taken in for refitting, with a steel plate being welded down each side of the ship. At the same time modifications were made to reduce hull noise.
Arrow decommissioned and was transferred to Pakistan on 1 March 1994, being renamed Kaibar. Exocet was not transferred to Pakistan and Kaibar had her obsolete SeaCat launcher removed. A quadruple Harpoon missile launcher was fitted in place of the Exocet launchers and a Phalanx CIWS was fitted in place of the SeaCat launcher. SRBOC chaff launchers and 20mm and 30mm guns were fitted.
Kaibar remains in service in service with the Pakistani Navy.
See HMS Arrow for other ships of the same name.
| Type 21 frigate |
| Amazon | Antelope | Active | Ambuscade | Arrow | Alacrity | Ardent | Avenger |
| List of frigates of the Royal Navy |