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Career	RN Ensign

Ordered:	December 1989
Laid down:	18 January 1991
Launched:	4 February 1992
Commissioned:	13 May 1994
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,900 tonnes
Length:	133 m (463 ft)
Beam:	16.1 m (52.9 ft)
Draught:	7.4 m (24.3 ft)
Propulsion:	CODLAG (Combined Diesel and Gas): 2 Rolls Royce spey boost turbines 4 GEC Paxman-Valenta diesel engines 2 GEC electric motors
Speed:
Range:
Complement:	185
Armament:	Two quad Harpoon launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles (32) 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun Two 30 mm guns Two magazine launched anti-submarine torpedo tubes NATO Seagnat and DFL3 decoy launchers
Aircraft:	Merlin
Motto:	For Nation and for Glory

HMS Westminster (F237) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.

See HMS Westminster for other ships of the same name.

v t e Type 23 frigates
Royal Navy	Norfolk Marlborough Argyll† Lancaster† Iron Duke† Monmouth† Westminster# Northumberland# Montrose† Richmond# Somerset# Grafton Sutherland# Kent# Portland# St Albans#
Chilean Navy	Almirante Cochrane (ex-Norfolk) Almirante Condell (ex-Marlborough) Almirante Lynch (ex-Grafton)
Preceded by: Type 22 frigate Followed by: Type 26 frigate (ASW) / Type 31 frigate (GP)
# = Fitted with towed array sonar for ASW operations † = General purpose ship without towed array sonar List of frigate classes of the Royal Navy