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
Draft:
19' 6"
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
4,400 (full)
HP:
TM3B 24,600
RM1C 9,700
Speed:
18 (normal) / 30 (max)
Crew:
200+
Range:
4,500 NM @ 18 knots


History
May 25, 1982:
Damaged by a bomb dropped from an Argentine IAI Dagger aircraft during the Falklands
War.


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