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HMS Broadsword F-88 |
Type: |
Guided Missile Frigate |
Class: |
Broadsword Type 22 (Batch 1) |
Builder: |
Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd. Scotstoun, Scotland |
Pennant Number: |
F-88 (UK) F-47 (Brazil) |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Launched: |
May 12, 1976 |
Keel Laid: |
February 7, 1975 |
Commissioned: |
May 4, 1979 |
Fate: |
Decommissioned Mar. 31, 1995. Sold to Brazil on June 30, 1995 and renamed Greenhalgh F-46, still active as of 2007. |
Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
430' 4" |
Engines: |
COGAG System 2 Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines |
Beam: |
48' 5" |
2 Rolls Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines |
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Draft: |
19' 6" |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
4,400 (full) |
HP: |
TM3B 24,600 RM1C 9,700 |
Speed: |
18 (normal) / 30 (max) |
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Crew: |
200+ |
Range: |
4,500 NM @ 18 knots |
History |
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May 25, 1982: |
Damaged by a bomb dropped from an Argentine IAI Dagger aircraft during the Falklands War. |
Page created Dec. 28, 2007 |