| The Vosper Thornycroft Mk10 design was announced in 1970 comprising four ships to be built in the UK and two in Brazil. They were all equipped with SAM Sea Cat but F42/43 have a different layout (see photos in ship pages) with a second 114mm gun plus 2 pairs of MM38 Exocets whilest the rest used the Ikara antisubmarine rocket launcher instead. They were all upgraded between 1995/2005 with SAM Aspide as pictured. The last ship U27 is sligthly different and configured as a training vessel |
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Shipyards | Login to Edit | |
 Arsenal de Marinha - Ilha das Cobras | 3 | |||||
 Vosper Thornycroft - Woolston | 4 | |||||
List of Ships | Login to Edit | |
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| Brazilian Navy | F40 | Niteroi | PWNI | 1976 | -- | |||
| Brazilian Navy | F41 | Defensora | PWDE | 1977 | -- | |||
| Brazilian Navy | F42 | Constituição | PWCO | 1978 | -- | |||
| Brazilian Navy | F43 | Liberal | PWLI | 1978 | -- | |||
| Brazilian Navy | F44 | Independência | 1979 | -- | ||||
| Brazilian Navy | F45 | União | PWUN | 1980 | -- | |||
| Brazilian Navy | U27 | Brasil | PWBL | 1986 | -- | |||
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| 1972-feb-14 | Laid down | F41 Defensora | ||||
| 1972-jun-8 | Laid down | F40 Niteroi | ||||
| 1972-jun-11 | Laid down | F44 Independência | ||||
| 1972-jun-11 | Laid down | F45 União | ||||
| 1974-feb-8 | Launched | F40 Niteroi | ||||
| 1974-mar-13 | Laid down | F42 Constituição | ||||
| 1974-sep-2 | Launched | F44 Independência | ||||
| 1975-mar-15 | Launched | F45 União | ||||
| 1975-mar-27 | Launched | F41 Defensora | ||||
| 1975-may-2 | Laid down | F43 Liberal | ||||
| 1976-apr-15 | Launched | F42 Constituição | ||||
| 1976-nov-20 | Commissioned | F40 Niteroi | ||||
| 1977-feb-7 | Launched | F43 Liberal | ||||
| 1977-mar-5 | Commissioned | F41 Defensora | ||||
| 1977-jul-14 | Trials | F41 Defensora trials with Lynx HAS.2 XZ232in UK waters | ||||
| 1978-mar-31 | Commissioned | F42 Constituição | ||||
| 1978-nov-19 | Commissioned | F43 Liberal | ||||
| 1979-sep-3 | Commissioned | F44 Independência | ||||
| 1980-sep-17 | Commissioned | F45 União | ||||
| 1981-jun | Ordered | U27 Brasil | ||||
| 1981-sep-18 | Laid down | U27 Brasil | ||||
| 1983-sep-23 | Launched | U27 Brasil | ||||
| 1986-aug-21 | Commissioned | U27 Brasil | ||||
| 2009-oct | Port Visit | U27 Brasil visited Pool of London alongside HMS Belfast and departed 15 Oct | ||||
| 2009-oct-5 | Deployment | F41 Defensora  Exercise Joint Warrior 09-2 participated in Ex JW 09-2, with Lynx N-4006 embarked | ||||
| 2010-apr-24 | Port Visit | F44 Independência week long visit to Liverpool, UK | ||||
| 2010-jun-28 | Port Visit | F44 Independência Fleet Review: 100th anniversary of Canadian Navy visited Halifax for MARLANT Fleet Review | ||||
| 2011 | Deployment | F45 União UNIFIL / NorAir / ItalAir with AH-11A Super Lynx embarked | ||||
| 2012-apr-10 | Deployment | F43 Liberal departed Rio de Janeiro Naval Base on 8 month deployment with UNIFIL (off Lebanon), returned in Feb 2013 having relieved Union. | ||||
| 2013-feb-9 | Port Visit | F43 Liberal visit to Natal, until 13 Feb. | ||||
| 2014-sep-28 | Port Visit | U27 Brasil visited Pool of London alongside HMS Belfast and departed 3 Oct | ||||
| 2015-sep-29 | Port Visit | U27 Brasil visited Pool of London alongside HMS Belfast | ||||
| 2016-sep-15 | Port Visit | U27 Brasil visited Pool of London alongside HMS Belfast | ||||
| 2019-oct-15 | Port Visit | U27 Brasil moored alongside HMS Belfast for 5 day visit to London | ||||
