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Guided missile frigate HMS Norfolk (F230)

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Classification

Ship class:
Duke-class frigate (Type 23)
Type:
Frigate

Basic information

Namesake:
Duke of Norfolk
Renaming:
  • CNS Almirante Cochrane (FF05) (22.11.2006 — present)
Operator:
Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile)Chilean Navy (Armada de Chile) Royal NavyRoyal Navy
Country of build:
Builder:
Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Active
Fate:
Transfer to Chilean Navy

Ship measurements

Displacement:
4,900 t
Length:
133 m
Beam:
16.1 m
Draft:
5.5 m

Machine

Propulsion system:
CODLAG (CODELAG)
Propulsion:
  • 2 * Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines, 34,000 hp (25,000 kW)
  • 4 * Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel engines, (4 * 1510 KW / 2025 shp)
  • 2 * GEC electric motors (1.5 MW, 4,400 hp)
Speed:
28 knots
Range:
7,800 nmi (14,400 km; 9,000 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)

Personnel

Complement:
185

Combat assets

Electronics:
  • TRS-4D G-band active scanning radar
  • 2050 sonar
  • Type 2087 sonar (Installed during year 2014 refit)
  • UAF-1 ESM
  • 675 ECM jammer
  • Seagnat ECCM
Armament:
  • 2 * quad RGM-84 Harpoon missile launchers
  • 32 * vertical Launch Sea Ceptor anti-aircraft & anti-missile missile system
  • 1 * 4.5-inch (114 mm) Mk.8 Mod 1 gun
  • 2 * Oerlikon 30 mm cannons
  • 4 * 324 mm Sting Ray — Side Launch Torpedo System
Aircraft:
  • 1 * Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma or 1 * Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin

HMS Norfolk was a British Type 23 frigate, the sixth in the Royal Navy to use this name, laid down in 1985 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was launched on the Clyde by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in July 1987 and named for the Dukedom of Norfolk. She was commissioned on 1 June 1990. Norfolk was the 'first of class', as well as being the first of a new generation of 'lean manned' ships. She was commissioned into the Chilean Navy in 2006 as Almirante Cochrane.

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