KD Hang Tuah

	KD Hang Tuah catches the morning sunlight while moored alongside at Pulau Labuan on 15 September 2007
History
Ghana
Name	Black Star
Builder	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Scotstoun
Yard number	2284
Fate	Order canceled after Kwame Nkrumah deposed in February 1966
United Kingdom
Launched	29 December 1966
Renamed	HMS Mermaid
Commissioned	16 May 1973
Fate	Transferred to Royal Malaysian Navy in April 1977
Malaysia
Name	KD Hang Tuah
Namesake	Hang Tuah
Acquired	April 1977
Decommissioned	2018
Status	Retired as 2018 and turned into a museum ship
General characteristics
Type	Type 41/Type 61 frigate
Displacement	2,300 long tons (2,337 t) standard
Length	103.5 m (339 ft 7 in)
Beam	12.2 m (40 ft 0 in)
Draught	4.9 m (16 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	8 × 16-cylinder ASR1 diesels, 14,400 shp (10,738 kW), 2 shafts
Speed	24 knots (28 mph; 44 km/h)
Complement	210
Sensors and ; processing systems	Plessey AWS1 air search radar; Decca 45 radars; Graseby Type 170B; Type 174 hull mounted sonar; UA-3 EW intercept;
Armament	(as built); 2 x 4 inch Mk 16 guns; 4 × 40 mm Bofors gun; 1 × Squid anti-submarine mortar ; (as refitted); 1 × Bofors 57 mm gun; 2 × 40 mm Bofors gun;
Aviation facilities	Helicopter landing platform

KD Hang Tuah is a frigate formerly operated by the Royal Malaysian Navy from 1977 until 2018. She is now a museum ship. She was built in the United Kingdom, originally for the Ghana Navy, but was launched and completed as a private venture, before being purchased by the Royal Navy in 1972. She served for five years as HMS Mermaid (F76) before being purchased by Malaysia, where she replaced another ex-British frigate also called Hang Tuah. She became a training ship in 1992 and was refitted to replace obsolete weapons and machinery.

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