HMS Brazen (F91)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 18 August 1978 |
| Launched: | 4 May 1980 |
| Commissioned: | 2 July 1982 |
| Decommissioned: | 1996 |
| Fate: | Sold to Brazil 31 August 1996. |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 5300 t |
| 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 20mm Bofors AA guns |
| Aircraft: | Lynx MK 8 helicopter |
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HMS Brazen (F91) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was completed three months ahead of schedule due to the Falklands War. She decommissioned in 1996 and was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 31 August 1996 and renamed Bosisio.
See HMS Brazen for other ships of the same name.
| Type 22 frigate |
| Royal Navy |
| Broadsword | Battleaxe | Brilliant | Brazen | Boxer | Beaver | Brave | London | Sheffield | Coventry | Cornwall | Cumberland | Campbeltown | Chatham |
| Brazilian Navy |
| Greenhalgh | Bosisio | Dodsworth | Rademaker |
| Romanian Navy |
| Regina Maria | Regele Ferdinand |
| Chilean Navy |
| Almirante Williams |
List of frigates of the Royal Navy |
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