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HMS WESTMINSTER F237
Name: HMS Westminster
Operator: Royal Navy
Ordered: December 1989
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down: 18 January 1991
Launched: 4 February 1992
Commissioned: 13 May 1994
Refit: October 2014
Homeport: Portsmouth
Motto: For Nation and for Glory
Status: active
General characteristics
Class and type: Type 23 frigate
Displacement: 4,900t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)
Length: 133m (436ft 4in)
Beam: 16.1m (52ft 10in)
Draught: 7.3m (23ft 11in)
Propulsion:
CODLAG:
Four 1,510kW (2,020shp) Paxman Valenta 12CM diesel generators
Two GEC electric motors delivering 2,980kW (4,000shp)
Two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C delivering 23,190kW (31,100shp)
Speed: In excess of 28 knots (52km/h; 32mph)
Range: 7,500 nautical miles (14,000km) at 15kn (28km/h)
Boatsand landing craft carried:
2 × PAC 24 RIBs
Complement: 185 (accommodation for up to 205)
Sensors and processing systems:
Sonar 2087
Electronic warfare and decoys:
UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1
Seagnat
Type 182 towed torpedo decoy
Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament:
Anti-air missiles:
1 × 32-cell Sea Wolf GWS.26 VLS canisters for 32:
Sea Wolf missiles (range 1-10km)
Anti-ship missiles:
2 × quad Harpoon launchers
Anti-submarine torpedoes:
2 × Twin 12.75in (324mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns:
1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun
2 × 30mm DS30M Mk2 guns, or, 2× 30mm DS30B guns
2 × Miniguns
4 × General purpose machine guns
Aircraft carried:
1 × Lynx HMA8, armed with;
4 × Sea Skua anti ship missiles, or
2 × anti submarine torpedoes
or
1 × Westland Merlin HM1, armed with;
4 × anti submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities:
Flight deck enclosed hangar