HMS Brilliant (F90)

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The HMS Brilliant (F90)
The HMS Brilliant (F90)
Overview
Type frigate
Shipyard

Yarrow Shipbuilders

Keel laying March 25, 1977
Launch December 15, 1978
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning May 15, 1981
Decommissioning August 31, 1996
Whereabouts sold to Brazil
Technical specifications
displacement

4,400  ts

length

131.2 m (430 ft)

width

14.8 m (48 ft)

Draft

6.1 m (20 ft)

crew

222

drive

2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B boost gas turbines (54.600 HP)
2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C gas turbines for cruising speed (9,700 hp)
2 screws

speed

Max. 30 kn (56 km / h) cruising 18 kn (33 km / h)

Armament

2 × 6 Sea Wolf Starter
4 × 1 Exocet SSM Starter
2 × 40 mm Bofors guns
2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters

HMS Brilliant (F90) was a Type 22 frigate in the Royal Navy . Under the command of Captain John Coward, she took part in the 1982 operation against the Argentine occupation of the Falkland Islands . During this mission , their two on- board helicopters attacked the Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe (S-21) , but without achieving any success.

However, the frigate had more success on May 12, 1982, when it fired , for the first time ever, anti-aircraft missiles of the Sea Wolf type and brought down a total of three A-4 Skyhawks .

On May 21, 1982 the Brilliant was attacked from the air by an Argentine IAI Nescher outside the waters of San Carlos and suffered slight damage from on-board cannon fire. On May 23, 1982, she met the frigate HMS Yarmouth and tried to bring up the Argentine supply ship ARA Monsunen in the sea battle of Seal Cove .

On May 15, she was able to rescue 24 survivors of the sunk British utility Atlantic Conveyor from distress.

Before leaving for the Falkland Islands, the frigate had taken two WE.177A nuclear depth charges nuclear bombs on board. In order to avoid possible problems due to the existing Tlatelolco Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , the two bombs were reloaded on April 16, 1982 to the RFA Fort Austin utility .

In the early 1990s, Brilliant was the focus of a BBC documentary series . In October 1990 the first members of the Women's Royal Naval Service were embarked on an active warship on the frigate .

As a Brazilian "Dodsworth (F 47)"

In 1996 the frigate was decommissioned and sold to Brazil on August 31 of the same year . There she still served in the Navy as NGB Fragata Dodsworth F-47 , until she was finally decommissioned on March 11, 2004 and transferred to the reserve fleet . At least until 2011 she was still in the base Naval do Rio de Janeiro at the pier.

The silhouette of the HMS Brilliant , together with the date May 21, has been painted on the side of the IAI Nesher with the identification number C-412 of the Argentine Air Force , as has the silhouette of the HMS Arrow (F173) and the date May 1. These combat markings (which are listed without a countersink) relate to the attack and damage to the two ships by the on-board cannons of this aircraft. Installed shortly after the end of the war, they were still in place in November 2005 during the CEIBO multi-national maneuver in Argentina and were also seen in 2007.

Since 2009 the ship has given its name to Brilliant Island , an island in the archipelago of South Georgia in the South Atlantic .

proof

  1. ^ Sandy Woodward | Admiral Sandy Woodward: One Hundred Days, page 364. ISBN 9780007134670
  2. ^ Lawrence Freedman, The Official History of the Falklands Campaign, Volume 2. Page 59. ISBN 9780415419116
  3. ^ Ministry of Defense ( Memento of February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), page 8. Retrieved March 10, 2009
  • AirForces Monthly Magazine February 2006, page 61.

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