H.M.S. Broadsword
F.88
1981
(Albatros ALK-80)
- Class: Type 22, Batch 1 - 4 Frigates of 1975
- Displacement: 4,000 tons
- Dimensions: 410 (wl) 430 (oa) x 48.5 x 19.9 ft.
- Machinery: COCOG: 2 x Rolls Royce Olympus TM3B gas boost turbines 50,000 shp = 30 knots;
2 x Rolls Royce Tyne RM1C gas auxiliary turbines 8,500 shp = 18 knots
- Missiles: 12 Sea Wolf SAM launchers (2x6); 4 MM.38 Exocet SSM
- Guns: 2-20mm guns
- ASW weapons: 6 Mark 32 ASW T.T.
- Aircraft: 2 Sea Lynx HAS.2 ASW helicopters
- Complement: 223
- Builder: Yarrow Shipbuilding Ltd., Scotstoun Glasgow
- Keel Laid: 7 Feb 1975
- Launched: 12 May 1976
- Commissioned: 3 May 1979
- Sold: Brazil 30 Jun 1995 renamed F.46 Greenhalgh
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