Libyan frigate Dat Assawari

File:Dat assawari.jpg datassawari, 1986
Career (Libya)
Name:	Dat Assawari
Operator:	Libyan Navy
Builder:	Vosper Thornycroft
Laid down:	27 September 1968
Launched:	13 October 1969
Commissioned:	1 February 1973
Status:	?
General characteristics
Class and type:	Vosper Mk 7
Type:	frigate
Displacement:	1,325 tons standard, 1,625 tons full load
Length:	100.6 m
Beam:	11 m
Draught:	3.4 m
Propulsion:	2 shaft CODOG 2 Rolls-Royce Olympus gas turbines 46,400 hp 42 Paxman Ventura diesels 3,500 hp
Speed:	37.5 knots (17 knots diesels only)
Range:	5700 NM - at 17 knots
Crew:	132
Sensors and processing systems:	DeccaTM1229 radar, Ran 10S radar, Diodon Sonar, Selenia Ran 12x combat data information system
Armament:	Missile antiship 4 x Otomat Anti-aircraft missile (1x4) Albatros SAM launcher; (replaced two Sea Cat missile launchers in 1980) 1 Vickers gun 4.5 inch Mk 8 (114 mm), (22 km range); 1 x 2 35 mm Oerlikon AA gun turret 2 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns (2x1) 2x 3 torpedo tubes for Mk-46 torpedoes; 1 Limbo anti submarine mortar (removed 1980)

The Dat Assawari was a frigate operated by the Libyan Navy. The ship was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Britain. It was ordered in February 1968 and delivered in 1973. The ship's design , the Vosper Mk 7 is a modified version of the Alvand class frigate built for the Iranian Navy. The ship had an extensive refit in Italy by CNR Riva Trigosa 1979-80 when new sensors and missiles (as listed in table above) were installed. A further refit was completed in 1990.

The current operational status of the ship is unclear

Source

• Conway's All the World's Fighting ships 1947-1995