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| Name | HMS Brave |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down | 24 May 1982 |
| Launched | 19 November 1983 |
| Sponsored by | Lady Bryson, wife of Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB, the Controller of the Navy |
| Commissioned | 4 July 1986 in Portsmouth, Hampshire |
| Decommissioned | 23 March 1999 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F94 |
| Motto | |
| Fate | Sunk as a target vessel by HMS Sceptre and HMS Argyll |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement | 5,300 tonnes |
| Length | 148.1 m (486 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 14.8 m (48 ft 6 in) |
| Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A Gas Turbines; 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C Gas Turbines |
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| Complement | 250 (19 officers, 73 senior ratings, 173 junior ratings) |
| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | Lynx HAS3 Mk.8 helicopter |
HMS Brave was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland and launched on 19 November 1983. Brave was decommissioned on 23 March 1999 and was expended as a target in August 2004 by the submarine Sceptre and frigate Argyll.[1]
- ^ "Brave Frigate". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 4 January 2020.