HMS Norfolk underway on 21 June 1997
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Norfolk |
Namesake | Norfolk |
Ordered | 29 October 1984 |
Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
Laid down | 14 December 1985 |
Launched | 10 July 1987 |
Sponsored by | Princess Margaret |
Commissioned | 1 June 1990 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 2005 |
Homeport | Devonport |
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Fate | Sold to Chile |
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Chile | |
Name | Almirante Cochrane |
Commissioned | 22 November 2006 |
Homeport | Valparaiso |
Motto | No hay imposible (There's no impossible) |
Status | Active |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Type 23 frigate |
Displacement | 4,900 tonnes |
Length | 133 m (436 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 16.1 m (52 ft 10 in) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
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Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) (max) |
Range | 7,800 nmi (14,400 km; 9,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 185 |
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Electronic warfare & decoys | |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma or Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin |
HMS Norfolk was a British Type 23 frigate, the sixth in the Royal Navy to use this name, laid down in 1985 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was launched on the Clyde by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in July 1987 and named for the Dukedom of Norfolk. She was commissioned on 1 June 1990. Norfolk was the 'first of class', as well as being the first of a new generation of 'lean manned' ships.[1] She was commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 2006 as Almirante Cochrane.