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Career	RN Ensign

Ordered:
Laid down:	18 January 1991
Launched:	4 February 1992
Commissioned:	13 May 1994
Decommissioned:
Fate:	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:	2 quad Harpoon launchers Vertical launch system Sea Wolf missiles 4.5-in Mk 8 gun 2 30 mm guns 2 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.

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

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