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| Career | RN Ensign. |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 12 May 1986 |
| Launched: | 20 January 1988 |
| Commissioned: | 4 May 1990 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Template:Ship fate box 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: | 4.5 inch (114 mm) Mk 8 gun Goalkeeper close-in weapons system (CIWS) Sea Wolf missile system 2 x Quad Harpoon missile launchers 2 x 20 mm Close range guns 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, 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 Battle of the Nile in 1798 .
HMS Chatham also hosted the BBC for the television programme "Shipmates" which chartered the life of ordinary sailors in the Royal Navy.
See HMS Chatham for other ships of the same name.
References
- Smith, Tannalee. "30 Members of British Fleet Reburied". Associated Press, April 18, 2005.
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SHIPMATES
HMS Chatham featured in a recently aired BBC1 documentary names "SHIPMATES". In the program Chatham was filmed on active service in the gulf, whilst on an anti terrorist mission. The show also covered the response Chatham gave to the Asian Tsunami and how they helped rebuild people in a small districts lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
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