HMS Brilliant (F90)
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 HMS Brilliant (F90) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Brilliant |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down: | 25 March 1977 |
| Launched: | 15 December 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 15 May 1981 |
| Decommissioned: | 1996 |
| Fate: | Sold to Brazil 31 August 1996 |
| Career (Brazil) |  |
| Name: | Dodsworth (F-47) |
| Operator: | Brazilian Navy |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 4,400 tons |
| Length: | 131.2 m (430 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (48 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
| Propulsion: |
2 shafts, COGOG |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) top speed |
| Complement: | 222 |
| Armament: | 2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM launchers 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers 2 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters |
HMS Brilliant (F90) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.
She was part of the Task Force that took part in the Falklands War. There, her two helicopters were involved in attacking the Argentine submarine Santa Fe. She was the first Royal Navy warship to fire the Sea Wolf missile in anger when, on 12 May 1982, she shot down three A-4 Skyhawks. On 21 May HMS Brilliant came under Argentine air attack outside San Carlos Water and was slightly damaged by cannon fire. On May 23, she joined HMS Yarmouth in the chase of the Argentinian supply ship Monsunen. She rescued 24 survivors from Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May.
Brilliant starred in a BBC documentary series called HMS Brilliant in the early 1990s. She decommissioned in 1996 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 31 August 1996 and renamed Dodsworth.
The silhouette of HMS Brilliant is to be found, along with the date May 21, painted on the side of Argentine Air Force IAI Finger serial number C-412. Also painted on C-412 is the silhouette of HMS Arrow and the date May 1. These kill markings (without crossing) has to do with the damage both ships suffered in the Falklands War, HMS Arrow being slightly damaged by cannon fire May 1, 1982 and HMS Brilliant also being slightly damaged by cannon fire, this on May 21. Fingers markings were spotted was during the November 2005 multi-national Exercise Ceibo in Argentina. Having been painted soon after the War, as of 2007, the markings remain extant.
[edit] References
- AirForces Monthly Magazine February 2006, page 61.
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