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HMS Broadsword (F88)

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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" |colspan="2"|Image:HMS Broadsword.JPG 300px|HMS Broadsword seen in profile |- !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career !style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|image:RN-White-Ensign.svg 60px|RN Ensign |- |Ordered: | |- |Laid down: |7 February 1975 |- |Launched: |12 May 1976 |- |Commissioned: |4 May 1979 |- |Decommissioned: |31 March 1995 |- |Fate: |Sold to Brazil on 30 June 1995. |- |Struck: | |- !colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics |- |Displacement: |5,300 tons |- |Length: |148.1 m |- |Beam: |14.8 m |- |Draught: | |- |Propulsion: | |- |Speed: |33 km/h cruise, 56 km/h sprint |- |Range: | |- |Complement: |250 |- |Armament: |2 x 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM Launchers
4 x 1 Exocet SSM Launchers
2 x 20 mm Bofors AA guns |- |Aircraft: |Westland Lynx MK 8 helicopter |- |Motto: | |} '''HMS ''Broadsword'' (F88)''' was the lead ship and first Batch 1 unit of the Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She took part in the Falklands War and was accompanying HMS Coventry (D118) ''Coventry'' on May 25, 1982 when that ship was sunk. ''Broadsword''s Lynx helicopter was destroyed by one bomb. She rescued 170 of ''Coventry'' 's crew. She shot down four aircraft during the war. She was decommissioned on 31 March 1995 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 30 June 1995 and renamed ''Greenhalgh''. See HMS Broadsword HMS ''Broadsword'' for other ships of the same name. {{UK-mil-ship-stub}} {{Type 22 frigate}} Category:Type 22 frigates Broadsword Category:Clyde built ships Broadsword