Built as a frigate under yard No 127 by Swan Hunter, Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K. for the Royal Navy.
1986 Ordered.
22 October 1987 keel laid down.
21 January 1989 launched as HMS MARLBOROUGH (F233) named after John Churchill (1650-1720), 1st Duke of Marlborough. She was one of the type 23 frigates of the Duke class.
Displacement 3.500 ton standard, 4.200 tons full load, dim. 133 x 16.1 x 7.3m. (draught).
Powered CODLAG (Combined Diesel-Electric and Gas), two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines, 31.100shp, twin shaft, speed 28 knots.
Four Paxman Valenta diesel engines each 2.025hp, .powering two GE electric motors delivering 4.000 shp.
Range by a speed of 15 knots, 9000 miles.
Armament: 2 - Harpoon quadruple launchers. 2 - vertical launch system for 32 Sea Wolf missiles.
1 – BAE 4.5 inch Mk8 gun. 2 – Oerlikon 30mm guns, 4 – 12.75 inch torpedo tubes for Sting Ray torpedoes.
1 Lynx HMA8 helicopter.
Crew 181.
14 June 1991 commissioned.
12 October 2000 when the USS COLE was attacked in Aden, Yemen the HMS MARLBOROUGH was the first naval vessel at the scene to assist the stricken COLE.
Under command of Captain Anthony Rix she was on passage to the U.K after a six month deployment in de Gulf and had a full medical detachment on board; when her offer of assistance was accepted she immediately diverted to Aden.
She played a key role in the Second Gulf War, under command of Captain Mark Anderson.
When on 05 October 2004 the HMCS CHICOUTIME a submarine, got on fire in the North Atlantic, the HMS MARLBOROUGH together with other Royal Navy ships came to her aid when the submarine was drifting off the northwest Irish coast.
08 July 2005 decommissioned.
28 May 2008 commissioned in the Chile Navy, renamed ALMIRANTE CONDELL (FF-06).
2011 In service.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marlborough_(F233) The Encyclopadia of Warships.