HMS Keppel (F85) [SEP] vessel class
HMS Keppel (F85)
HMS "Keppel" (F85) was one of a dozen Blackwood-class frigate (also known as the Type 14 class) of second-rate anti-submarine frigates built for the Royal Navy in the 1950s. She was named for Augustus Keppel, who served during the Seven Years' War and was Admiral of the Channel Fleet during the American War of Independence.
Description.
The "Blackwood" class displaced at standard load and at deep load. They had an overall length
HMS Jupiter (F85)
HMS "Jupiter" was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.
Construction and design.
"Jupiter" was ordered, along with the rest of the J class, on 25 March 1937, and was laid down by Yarrow, Limited, at their Scotstoun, Glasgow shipyard on Clydebank in Scotland on 28 September 1937 and launched on 27 October 1938. She was commissioned on 22 June 1939, and was completed on 25 June 1939, at a cost of £389,511.