Battleaxe HMS (Frigate) 1977
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:12 pm
HMS Battleaxe was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 April 1997 and renamed Rademaker.
She was built in Yarrow Shipbuilders s shipyard Laid down in 4 February 1976, Launched in 18 May 1977 and commissioned in 28 March 1980. Class & type: Type 22 frigate, Displacement: 4,400 tons, Length: 131.2 m (430 ft), Beam: 14.8 m (49 ft), Draught: 6.1 m (20 ft), Propulsion: 2 shafts, COGOG 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines (54,600 shp) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp), Speed: 18 knots cruise, 30 knots max speed, Complement: 222, Armament: 2 × 2× torpedo tubes for Mk-46 torpedoes 2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM launchers 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers 2 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, Aircraft carried: 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters.
HMS Battleaxe was featured in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.
Picture1: HMS Battleaxe
Picture2: BNS Rademaker
Bahamas 2001, S.G.?, Scott: 1026.
Source: Wikipedia
She was built in Yarrow Shipbuilders s shipyard Laid down in 4 February 1976, Launched in 18 May 1977 and commissioned in 28 March 1980. Class & type: Type 22 frigate, Displacement: 4,400 tons, Length: 131.2 m (430 ft), Beam: 14.8 m (49 ft), Draught: 6.1 m (20 ft), Propulsion: 2 shafts, COGOG 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines (54,600 shp) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp), Speed: 18 knots cruise, 30 knots max speed, Complement: 222, Armament: 2 × 2× torpedo tubes for Mk-46 torpedoes 2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM launchers 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers 2 × 40 mm Bofors AA guns 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, Aircraft carried: 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters.
HMS Battleaxe was featured in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.
Picture1: HMS Battleaxe
Picture2: BNS Rademaker
Bahamas 2001, S.G.?, Scott: 1026.
Source: Wikipedia