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Flight Deck: | BZ |
Call Sign: | GZIT |
Shipyard: | Yarrow |
Events |
History of | |||||||||
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1977-oct | Ordered | Ordered | |||||||
1978-aug-18 | Laid down | Laid down | |||||||
1980-mar-04 | Launched | Launched | |||||||
1982-jul-02 | Commissioned | Commissioned | |||||||
1982-oct-06 | Aircraft | Aircraft South Atlantic Lynx HAS.2 XZ690 noted ranged on flight deck, as ship departed Devonport to relieve HMS Battleaxe during mid Oct in South Atlantic. Returned on 6 Jan 1983. | |||||||
1983-nov-18 | Deployment | Deployment ![]() | |||||||
1986-feb | Port Visit | Port Visit Tower Bridge Upper early Feb visit, alongside HMS Belfast. | |||||||
1986-aug-07 | Deployment | Deployment Armilla Patrol relieved from Armilla Patrol on station by HMS Syclla. | |||||||
1987-aug-20 | Port Visit | Port Visit ![]() | |||||||
1990-sep | Deployment | Deployment Persian Gulf Task Group 321.1 Armilla Patrol Deployed to reinforce Armilla Patrol after Kuwaiti annexation by Iraq. Joined by HMS Cardiff and HMS Gloucester as part of TG 321.1, relieving HMS Battleaxe, HMS Jupiter and HMS York. | |||||||
1991-jan-29 | Deployment | Deployment Operation Desert Shield/Storm Ships Flt Lynx (ZD256/330-BZ and XZ724/331-BZ), together with those from HMS Gloucester, HMS Cardiff and HMS Manchester, engaged Iraqi Fast Attack Craft with Sea Skua missiles. | |||||||
1992-feb-04 | Port Visit | Port Visit ![]() | |||||||
1994-sep-11 | Deployment | Deployment ![]() | |||||||
1996-feb | Deployment | Deployment Operation Sharp Guard operating in the Adriatic Sea. | |||||||
1996-may | Decommissioned | Decommissioned | |||||||
1996-aug-30 | Fate: transfered | Fate: transfered to Marinha do Brasil as BNS Bosisio | |||||||
History of Greenhalgh class | |||||||||
1996-aug-31 | Commissioned | Commissioned ex UK RN HMS Brazen | |||||||
2015-sep | Decommissioned | Decommissioned | |||||||
2017-jul | Fate: sunk | Fate: sunk sunk as a target |
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Specifications |
Type 22 (Batch 1) Broadsword class | |||||||
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222 | crew | ||||||
3500 | light (tn) | ||||||
4400 | full load (tn) | ||||||
131.10 | length (m) | ||||||
14.80 | beam (m) | ||||||
6.10 | draught (m) | ||||||
4500 | range (nm) | ||||||
30 | max speed (knots) | ||||||
2 | Naval Engine gas turbine - Rolls Royce Olympus | ||||||
2 | Naval Engine gas turbine - Rolls Royce Tyne | ||||||
2 | Naval Engine propulsion system: COGOG | ||||||
4 | Missile Launcher MM38 Exocet single launcher | ||||||
2 | Missile Launcher Sea Wolf | ||||||
4 | Chaff and decoys Seagnat | ||||||
1 | Chaff and decoys towed decoy Type 182 | ||||||
1 | Naval Radar air search radar Type 967 | ||||||
1 | Naval Radar surface search radar Type 968 | ||||||
2 | Naval Radar fire direction radar Type 910 | ||||||
1 | Naval Radar navigation radar Type 1006 | ||||||
1 | Sonar hull mounted sonar Type 2016 |
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Typical | Max | |||||||
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![]() | Westland Lynx | 1 | 2 | |||||
![]() | Westland Sea King | 0 | 1 | |||||
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