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Career	RN Ensign

Ordered:
Laid down:	12 May 1986
Launched:	20 January 1988
Commissioned:	4 May 1990
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	5300 t
Length:	148.1 m
Beam:	14.8 m
Draught:
Propulsion:		2 Rolls Royce Tyne Gas Turbines	2 Rolls Royce Spey Gas Turbines	2 shafts driving variable pitch propellers with COGAG (Combined Gas And Gas) gearbox, allowing all four engines to provide power to the drive train.
Speed:	cruise 18 knots (33 km/h), max 30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	250 (max 301)
Armament:	114mm (4.5 inch) MK 8 gun Goalkeeper close-in weapons system (CIWS) Sea Wolf anti-missile system 2 x Quad Harpoon missile launchers 2 x 20 mm Close range guns NATO Seagnat Decoy Launchers
Aircraft:	Lynx MK 8 helicopters armed with: Sea Skua anti-ships missiles Stingray anti-submarine torpedoes Mk 11 depth charges Machine guns
Motto: "Up and at 'em".

HMS Chatham (F87) is a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was guardship to the Royal Yacht Britannia when she withdrew from Hong Kong. In May 2000 Chatham was part of the Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) sent to the coast of Sierra Leone to oversee the evacuation of British, EU and Commonwealth nationals.

In December, 2004 the Chatham operated off the coast of Sri Lanka, carrying out relief operations after the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami.

On April 18, 2005, the Chatham, at Alexandria, Egypt, sent a party ashore to provide a burial for the recently-uncovered remains of thirty British sailors and officers who had died during or after the 1798 Battle of the Nile.

See HMS Chatham for other ships of the same name.

RESOURCES

Smith, Tannalee. "30 Members of British Fleet Reburied". Associated Press, April 18, 2005.

v t e Type 22 frigates
Royal Navy	Broadsword Battleaxe Brilliant Brazen Boxer Beaver Brave London Sheffield Coventry Cornwall Cumberland Campbeltown Chatham
Brazilian Navy	Greenhalgh (ex-Broadsword) Dodsworth (ex-Brilliant) Bosísio (ex-Brazen) Rademaker (ex-Battleaxe)
Chilean Navy	Almirante Williams (ex-Sheffield)
Romanian Naval Forces	Regele Ferdinand (ex-Coventry) Regina Maria (ex-London)
Preceded by: Type 21 frigates Followed by: Type 23 frigates
List of frigates of the Royal Navy

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