The Type 61 Salisbury class were a class

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 of British

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 aircraft direction (or radar picket

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) frigate

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s built for the Royal Navy

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. They were related to the Type 41 Leopard class frigates, but with reduced armament to make way for more aircraft direction equipment.

Construction Programme

Pennant Pennant number In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers...	Name	Builder	Ordered	Laid Down	Launched	Accepted into service	Commissioned	Estimated building cost	Fate
F32	Salisbury HMS Salisbury (F32) HMS Salisbury was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the British Royal Navy. She was built at Devonport Dockyard, laid down 1 January 1952, launched 25 June 1953, and completed 27 February 1957....	(a) HM Dockyard, Devonport (b) Vickers Armstrong (Engineers) Ltd, Barrow-in-Furness	21 August 1951	23 January 1952	25 June 1953	27 February 1957	27 February 1957	£2,900,000	Sale to Egypt cancelled 1978 whilst on delivery trip. May 1980 harbour training ship Devonport. Sunk as target 30 September 1985.
F59	Chichester	(a) The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, Glasgow (b) British Polar Engines British Polar Engines British Polar Engines is a manufacturer of diesel engines based in Glasgow, Scotland. The company has over seventy years' experience in the manufacture and supply of spare parts for diesel engines...  Ltd, Glasgow	28 June 1951	26 June 1953	21 June 1955	May 1958	16 May 1958	£3,291,000	Converted to harbour guardship Hong Kong 1973; sold for breaking up 17 March 1981.
F61	Llandaff HMS Llandaff (F61) HMS Llandaff was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for the district of Llandaff in Cardiff, Wales....	(a) R & W Hawthorn Leslie and Co Ltd, Newcastle-on-Tyne (b) British Polar Engines Ltd, Glasgow	28 June 1951	27 August 1953	30 November 1955	April 1958	11 April 1958	£3,393,000	To Bangladesh 10 December 1978 as Umar Farooq BNS Umar Farooq BNS Umar Farooq is a Salisbury class frigate, the former HMS Llandaff, currently in service with the Bangladesh Navy.She was built in Britain, and served with the Royal Navy for 18 years, before being sold to Bangladesh, arriving there on 27 March 1977... . Wrongly claimed sold for breaking up in April 1983. Not scrapped, still in active service.
F99	Lincoln HMS Lincoln (F99) HMS Lincoln was a Salisbury-class or Type 61 aircraft direction frigate of the Royal Navy.She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan on the River Clyde. The ship was laid down in 1955, launched 6 April 1959, and completed 7 July 1960...	(a) The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, Glasgow (b) Cammell Laird and Co (Shipbuilders and Engineers) Ltd Cammell Laird Cammell Laird, one of the most famous names in British shipbuilding during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, came about following the merger of Laird, Son & Co. of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co. of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century.- Founding of the business :The Company... , Birkenhead Birkenhead Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...	28 June 1951	1 June 1955	6 April 1959	July 1960	7 July 1960	£3,685,000	Sale to Egypt in 1978 cancelled. August 1979 recommissioned briefly as submarine target. Intended to be sold to Bangladesh in 1982, though this transfer did not take place. Broken up 1983.

Three further ships of the class were planned. Two of these were cancelled under the 1957 Defence Review, and the third (Coventry) was suspended. It was hoped to order Coventry in 1961, but in the event it was decided to order a Leander class frigate that became the Penelope.