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HMS Westminster (F237)

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HMS Westminster moored alongside HMS Belfast
Career RN Ensign
Ordered: December 1989
Laid down: 18 January 1991
Launched: 4 February 1992
Commissioned: 13 May 1994
Decommissioned:
Fate: Template:Ship fate box 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-eLectric And Gas)
2 Rolls-Royce Spey boost gas-turbines
4 Paxman Valenta diesel engines
2 GEC electric motors
Speed:
Range:
Complement: 185
Armament: 2 ASuW Harpoon quad launchers
Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles
BAE 4.5 inch (110 mm) Mk 8 gun
2 Oerlikon 30 mm guns
4 Sting Ray torpedo tubes
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.

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Type 23 frigates
 Royal Navy
 Chilean Navy


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