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HMS Westminster (F237)

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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:
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
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: Lynx HMA8
Motto:

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

See HMS Westminster for other ships of the same name.

Type 23 frigates
 Royal Navy
 Chilean Navy
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