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White Ensign 1 White Ensign Updated Second Printing A Supplement for Harpoon covering the Royal and Commonwealth Navies from 1960 to the Present Day designed by R. A. Doty edited by Larry Bond and Charlie Spiegel published by The AdmiraltySample Trilogyfile Group The author is a Chief Fire Controlman, stationed aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as part of Commander, Carrier Group Five’s staff. This publication and its contents are the author’s own work and do not represent the views, plans or assess- ments of the United States Navy or the United States government. Copyright © 1998, 2003, 2013, 2015 the Admiralty Trilogy Group, LLC and R. A. Doty. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. Made in the USA. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. The designers of White Ensign and Harpoon are prepared to answer questions about the game system. They can be reached in care ofhe Admiralty Trilogy Group at [email protected]. Visit their website at http://www.admiraltytrilogy.com. Harpoon is Larry Bond’s and Chris Carlson’s trademarked name for their modern naval wargame system. Admiralty Trilogy is Larry Bond’s, Chris Carlson’s, Ed Kettler’s, and Michael Harris’ trademarked name for their Twentieth Century naval game system. This version of White Ensign has been updated with all errata corrected through 3 Nov 2013. Cover: HMS Liverpool, a Type 42 Batch 2 guided missile destroyer, during Exercise Joint Warrior, in 2011 (wikimedia) 2 White Ensign Table of Contents Page Table of Contents 3 Author’s Introduction 4 Editorial 4 What You Get 4 Where the White Ensign Has Flown 5 Ship Class Index 9 Annex A Royal Australian Navy (RAN) A-1 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) A-6 Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) A-9 Royal Navy (RN) A-12 Annex B Aircraft Australia B-1 Canada B-4 New Zealand B-5 United Kingdom B-6 Annex C1 Naval Surface Guns C1-1 Annex C2 Naval Air Defense Guns C2-1 Annex D Surface Missiles D-1 Annex E1 ASW Standoff Weapons E-1 Annex E2 Ahead-Thrown Weapons E-1 Annex E3 Depth Charges E-1 Annex F Torpedoes F-1 Annex G1 Unguided Air Ordnance G-1 Annex G2 Electronic Air Ordnance G-1 Annex G3 Air Cannon G-1 Annex G4 Guided Air Ordnance G-2 Annex G5 Anti-Runway Ordnance F-1* Annex H Air-to-Air Missiles H-1 Annex J Naval Radars J-1 Annex K Fire Control Radars K-1 Annex L Air Radars L-1 Annex M1 Sonar Systems M1-1 Annex M2 Airborne Sonobuoy Processors M2-1 Annex Q Conversion Factors and Scales Q-1 Annex S (modified) Land Surface-to-Air Missiles Sample file E-1* Carrier Air Groups 80 Squadron Histories 84 Bibliography 88 *To save space, Annex G-5 appears on Page F-1, and Annex S appears on page E-1 Notes to the Second Printing: This publication has been updated to incorporate new weapons and upgrades to existing weapons systems, as well as ships commissioned and decommissioned. It also includes the errata to the first printing sent in by many readers. Thanks to Dwayne Austin, Simon Curry, Peter Grining, Stuart Machin, Evan Powles, Brian Prieor and Brooks Rowlett for their contributions. Information cutoff date for the 2nd printing: September 2003. White Ensign 3 squadrons at roughly five year marks. Several of the Squadron Signal books on aircraft were also used. Using earlier editions of Harpoon had its problems. The Mk6(6)1 40mm/60 stats were not going to correlate with the H4 stats for the Mk3, Mk5, Mk7 or Mk9 40mm/60. Also, the way radars are figured has changed. This is where I want to thank Larry Bond and Chris Carlson for all the stats that I could not come up with. Chris is also the ECM/ECCM guru. I had problems with the “Gen- Introduction erations” of ECM for ships and he helped out tremendously. White Ensign provides the Harpoon4 (H4) player a list Mr. Paul French was a big help. He gets to go to the Fleet of all the British and Commonwealth ships and aircraft from Air Arm Museum! Lucky him. I hope it is as good as the 1960 to 2003. You will find a lot of information reprinted from Pensacola Naval Air Museum. His major problem, and mine previous editions of the Harpoon system, but you will find a as it turned out, was Britain’s 30-year rule. It doesn’t matter lot of information that was not. Of course, this is not a stand- that there are no more Sea Vixen, Sea Venom, or Scimitars. alone supplement. You must have the H4 rules to use White If the information isn’t over 30 years old, you won’t be able Ensign, except as a reference. to get it. Also, his help on the introduction for Borneo was of great help. Hopefully we will see more from him in the Editorial future. Mr. Mal Wright from Down Under has helped with a Concerning the collection of data: If you look at the bib- lot of stats for the RAN/RNZN. I didn’t even know that RAAF liography you will see that a lot of references were looked had F-4 Phantoms before the F-111 Aardvark was intro- at, from Jane’s Fighting Ships all the way back to 1959, to duced, and he got to see them!! Thanks also to Dr. Adrian Friedman’s new Naval Weapons Systems from the Naval Davis for his help with the RN stats and the introductory Institute Press to old editions of various magazines. work, it was badly needed. It’s hard to find some information. If you look at early I hope you like White Ensign. editions of Jane’s or books like Weyer’s Warships of the V/R World you notice that the radars, sonars and ECM are not Andy Doty mentioned, and looking at the pictures (and I looked at a lot) you cannot always tell what radars were on a ship. Sonar is even harder! What You Get Norman Friedman’s Naval Radar was very helpful and Annex A lists the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal I want to take this chance to encourage him to put out an Canadian Navy (RCN), Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), updated version. Weapon systems bring their headaches to and Royal Navy (RN). Ships from carriers all the way down this also. Jane’s does a good job when you get to the 1980s to patrol/fast attack craft are listed, as well as ships taken but try to find out when the AIM-7 or AIM-9 were given to up from trade (STUFT) during the Falklands War. the British, or when any other missile system entered into Annex B lists all the shipboard and land-based aircraft service. I’m hoping someone will do an “older” version of that would or could be used in a naval environment. Naval Weapons Systems. Sample fileSquadron Histories and Carrier Air Groups during this To the point. What reference do you use as a basis? I period are listed at the end of the book. It is interesting like Conway’s because it lists all the naval ships of a coun- to note that unlike US practice, the British would disband try, what modifications were done to them, and the eventual squadrons and then reform them, usually after a deploy- disposition of the ship. I next went to Jane’s for the list of ment on board one of the carriers. auxiliaries. Now this takes several trips to the Library, and Ships are listed either as built or as they appeared in with two girls tagging along you can’t stay very long!! Next, 1960, if they were built before then. Modifications to a ship’s Combat Fleets was used. Coverage starts with the 1976 weapons or sensors are listed in the remarks, along with edition, so for years earlier than that you have to depend the period when the change was made. The number of on other sources. These books give good descriptions and ships in service will either be the number in service at the even mention ECM in the ’76 edition. Wyer’s Warships was present time (2003) or, if enclosed in brackets ([ ]), the total also used for determining weapon system layout. number built, but the class is now out of service completely. For specific ships or ship classes/types, take a look The Remarks will include the dates when ships of the class at Norman Friedman’s British Carrier Aviation. This book were removed from service, as well as actions or conflicts not only ate up my profits but is outstanding in its ability to they took part in. take the mundane stuff that happens to a ship when it is A note on electronics designations: Until the early modified throughout its life and put it into terms that even 1990s, all radars and sonars received a “Type” designation, I could read and enjoy. For some of the frigates, the early in series with communications and EW equipment, e.g., the editions of Warship have good articles on the Leander, Type Type 965 was an an search radar and the Type 184 was a 15 and Type 16 classes. Aircraft Carriers of the Royal and hull mounted search sonar. Commonwealth Navies gives a listing of all the carriers and Beginning in the 1990s, radars and sonars included when and what aircraft were embarked.