HMS Coventry (F98)
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| Career |  |
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| 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: | 2 x Tyne Gas Turbine (Cruising)
2 x Olympus Gas Turbine (Sprint) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise, 30 knots (56 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Armament (as Regele Ferdinand): | 2 x 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM Launchers, 4 x 1 Exocet SSM Launchers, 2 x Twin 30mm AA, 2 x 20mm AA guns, 4 x 7.62mm GPMG. |
| Aircraft: | Lynx MK 8 helicopter |
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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 commissioned as Regele Ferdinand on 9 September 2004.
There has since been some controversy over the price that Romania paid to purchase the ship.[1]
See HMS Coventry for other ships of the same name.
