HMS Coventry (F98)

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Career

Laid down:	29 March 1984
Launched:	8 April 1986
Commissioned:	14 October 1988
Decommissioned:	17 January 2001
Fate:	Sold to Romania on 14 January 2003
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5,300 tons
Length:	148.1 m
Beam:	14.8 m
Draught:
Propulsion:
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h) cruise, 30 knots (56 km/h) sprint
Range:
Complement:	250
Armament (as Regele Ferdinand):	76/62 Oto Metara Super-Rapid gun
Aircraft:	Lynx MK 8 helicopter
Motto:

HMS Coventry (F98) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry (D118), a Type 42 destroyer sunk in the Falklands War.

She was sold to the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003 and renamed Regele Ferdinand. The ship was handed over to Romania on 19 August 2004 underwent sea trials at the same time. Regele Ferdinand was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on 9 September 2004. There has since been some controversy over the price at which she was bought.[1]

See HMS Coventry for other ships of the same name.

Type 22 frigate

Royal Navy