HMS Antrim in 1976
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Antrim |
Namesake | County Antrim |
Ordered | 5 January 1965 |
Builder | Upper Clyde Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 20 January 1966 |
Launched | 19 October 1967 |
Sponsored by | Mrs Roy Mason, wife of then Minister of Defence (Equipment), Roy Mason |
Commissioned | 14 July 1970 |
Decommissioned | 1984 |
Identification | Pennant number: D18 |
Honours and awards | Falklands War |
Fate | Sold to Chile on 22 June 1984 |
Chile | |
Name | Almirante Cochrane |
Namesake | Thomas Cochrane |
Acquired | 22 June 1984 |
Decommissioned | 7 December 2006 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 11 December 2010 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | County-class destroyer |
Displacement | 6,200 tons (6,800 tons full load) |
Length | 522 ft (159 m) |
Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
Draught | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
Propulsion | COSAG (Combined steam and gas) turbines, 2 shafts |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Wessex HAS Mk 3 helicopter |
Aviation facilities | Flight 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.