History of Type 22 (Batch 1) Broadsword class F91 HMS Brazen
1977-oct
Ordered
1978-aug-18
Laid down
1980-mar-4
Launched
1982-jul-2
Commissioned
1982-oct-6
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
off LebanonOperation Offcut ordered to stand off Beirut as advanced units for support of British forces and civilians in Lebanon.
Grand Harbour / il-Port il-Kbir / Valletta visited Valletta for c. a week. First British warship to visit officially, since the Dom Mintoff expelled the UK Armed Forces in 1979.
1990-sep
Deployment
Persian GulfTask Group 321.1Armilla 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
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.
Talcahuano ran aground in Patagonian Canal and later patched up in Talcahuano, Chile. This incident was likely key to the later decision to sell her to Brazil.
Royal Navy - Type 22 (Batch 1) Broadsword class F91 HMS Brazen 
off Lebanon 
Operation Offcut ordered to stand off Beirut as advanced units for support of British forces and civilians in Lebanon.
Grand Harbour / il-Port il-Kbir / Valletta visited Valletta for c. a week. First British warship to visit officially, since the Dom Mintoff expelled the UK Armed Forces in 1979.
Bermuda Dockyard Visited Bermuda 4 - 7 Feb 1992
Talcahuano ran aground in Patagonian Canal and later patched up in Talcahuano, Chile. This incident was likely key to the later decision to sell her to Brazil.
