HMS Antrim (D18)

HMS Antrim in 1976
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Antrim
NamesakeCounty Antrim
Ordered5 January 1965
BuilderUpper Clyde Shipbuilders
Laid down20 January 1966
Launched19 October 1967
Sponsored byMrs Roy Mason, wife of then Minister of Defence (Equipment), Roy Mason
Commissioned14 July 1970
Decommissioned1984
IdentificationPennant number: D18
Honours and
awards
Falklands War
FateSold to Chile on 22 June 1984
Chile
NameAlmirante Cochrane
NamesakeThomas Cochrane
Acquired22 June 1984
Decommissioned7 December 2006
FateSold for scrap 11 December 2010
General characteristics
Class and typeCounty-class destroyer
Displacement6,200 tons (6,800 tons full load)
Length522 ft (159 m)
Beam53 ft (16 m)
Draught20 ft (6.1 m)
PropulsionCOSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × Wessex HAS Mk 3 helicopter
Aviation facilitiesFlight deck and enclosed hangar for embarking one helicopter

HMS Antrim was a County-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy launched on 19 October 1967. In the Falklands War, she was the flagship for the recovery of South Georgia, participating in the first ever anti-submarine operation successfully conducted exclusively by helicopters. In 1984, she was commissioned into the Chilean Navy, and renamed Almirante Cochrane.