HMS Coventry (F98)
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 HMS Coventry (F98) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Coventry |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1984 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1986 |
| Commissioned: | 14 October 1988 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 January 2002 |
| Fate: | Sold to Romania on 14 January 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons |
| Length: | 146.5 m (480 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (48 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft COGOG 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B high-speed gas turbines (54,000 shp / 40 MW) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp / 7.2 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33.3 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) full |
| Range: | 8,000 nm (16,000 km) |
| Complement: | 273 |
| Armament: | 2 × 6 GWS25 Sea Wolf SAM launchers 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers 2 × Twin 30 mm AA guns 2 × 20 mm AA guns 4 × 7.62 mm GPMGs |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Coventry.
HMS Coventry (F98) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry (D118), a Type 42 destroyer sunk in the Falklands War.
She was sold to the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003 and commissioned as Regele Ferdinand on 9 September 2004.
There has since been some controversy over the price that Romania paid to purchase the ship (Leigh and Evans,2006).
[edit] References
- Leigh D. and Evans R. (2006) We paid three times too much for UK frigates, Romania says, Guardian Unlimited online, 13 June 2006 (accessed 13th May 2007)
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