Country: United Kingdom
Class, [Type]: Type 23, [FF].
Builder: Marconi Marine-Yarrow, Glasgow, U.K.
Launch date: 05 November 1994.
Commission date: 29 May 1997.
Decommission date: 24 January 2006.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.500 standard, 4.200 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 133 x 16,1 x 7,7
Main machinery: CODLAG: 2 x RR Spey SM1C gas turbines ( 52.300 hp ); 4 x Paxman Valenta 12 RPA 200CZ diesels ( 8.100 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 30; 15 on diesel-electric.
Range ( miles ): 7.800 at 15 knots.
Complement: 174 ( 12 officers ) ( accomodation for 185 ( 16 officers )).

Guns: 1 x Vickers 114mm/55 Mk8, 2 x Oerlikon/DES Mk1 30mm/75.
Missiles:  SSM: 8 x McDonnell Douglas Harpoon ( 2 quads ); SAM: British Aerospace Seawolf GWS 26 Mod 1 VLS, 32 canisters.
Torpedoes: 4 x Cray Marine 324mm fixed tubes ( 2 twin ). Marconi Stingray torpedoes.

Radar: Air/Surface search: Plessey Type 996(I), 3D, E/F bands; Navigation: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007, I band; Fire control: 2 x Marconi Type 911, I/Ku bands.
Sonar: Ferranti/Thomson Sintra Type 2050, bow mounted, active search and attack modes; Dowty Type 2031Z, towed array, passive search.
Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Sea Gnat; Type 182, towed torpedo decoy; ESM: Racal UAT; ECM: Type 675(2) or Racal Scorpion, jammer.
Helicopter: 1 x Westland Lynx HMA 3/8 or 1 x EH 101 Merlin HAS 1.

Callsign: GCOY (     )
Comment: Sold to Chile.

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