RN Frigates: Type 22 Class

[Brian James]

Batch 3, Type 22 Frigate HMS Chatham....She was decommissioned in February 2011 and was stripped of equipment and laid up at Portsmouth and in July 2013 sold to Turkish company Leyal for demolition. In autumn 2013, Chatham was towed to Leyal Shipyard in Turkey on her final voyage for breaking.

[jbryce1437]

HMS Chatham leaving the River Tyne after a port visit in 24 January 2010

Jim

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[jbryce1437]

A few others of the class:
Battleaxe

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Beaver

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Boxer

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Brave

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Brazen

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Brilliant

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Broadsword

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Campbeltown

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Chatham

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Cornwall

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Coventry

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Cumberland

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London

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Sheffield

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Four Batch 2 Type 22s

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[Brian James]

Batch 2 Type 22 or Broadsword Class Frigate HMS Boxer pictured in 1999...She was sunk as a target in August 2004.

[Brian James]

Batch 2 Broadsword Class, Type 22 Guided Missile Frigate HMS Coventry pictured under construction at Swan Hunter Shipbuilding Yards at Wallsend in 1986....She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry, a Type 42 Destroyer sunk in the Falklands War.
Following service in the RN she was purchased from the UK by the Romanian Navy on January 14th 2003, and renamed NMS Regele Ferdinand. The ship was handed over to Romania on August 19th 2004, and underwent sea trials at the same time. Regele Ferdinand was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on September 9th 2004 with the pennant number F221, and is the current flagship of the Romanian Navy.

[jbryce1437]

Batch 2 Broadsword Class, Type 22 Guided Missile Frigate HMS Coventry pictured under construction at Swan Hunter Shipbuilding Yards at Wallsend in 1986....She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry, a Type 42 Destroyer sunk in the Falklands War.
Following service in the RN she was purchased from the UK by the Romanian Navy on January 14th 2003, and renamed NMS Regele Ferdinand. The ship was handed over to Romania on August 19th 2004, and underwent sea trials at the same time. Regele Ferdinand was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on September 9th 2004 with the pennant number F221, and is the current flagship of the Romanian Navy.

Lovely photos, I have coloured versions of those three photos, shared by Dave Wilkinson who was a member of the old WNS Forum. There was also these two in the set

Jim

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[Brian James]

Wow!!..thank you Jim.....Regards Brian..

[Towns]

COVENTRY Leaving the Tyne on Builders Sea Trials 26 June 1988 Flying a Red Ensign.
Townes