Name HMS Tenby Laid down 23 June 1953 Decommissioned 1972 Construction started 23 June 1953 Draft 5.2 m | Ordered 6 March 1951 Commissioned 18 December 1957 Identification Pennant number F65 Launched 4 October 1955 Builder Cammell Laird | |
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HMS Tenby was a Whitby-class or Type 12 anti-submarine frigate of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. By the early 1970s, in the latter part of her career, she was one of three frigates which formed the Dartmouth Training Squadron and was used for the training of Royal Navy Officer Cadets before being promoted to Midshipmen.
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In popular culture
The fake funeral of James Bond in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice was filmed onboard this ship, which was near Gibraltar at that time. In the film, it was supposed to be in Hong Kong.
Decommissioning
She was paid off into the reserve fleet on 8 December 1972 with the final ship's company leaving on 28 February 1973.
She spent four years laid up at Devonport prior to being sold to Thos W Ward for breaking up at Briton Ferry, the proposed sale to Pakistan being cancelled.