Ex HMS SHEFFIELD F96
Sold to Chile renamed CNS ALMIRANTE WILLIAMS FF19
Namesake: Sheffield
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down: 29 March 1984
Launched: 26 March 1986
Commissioned: 26 July 1988
Decommissioned: 5 November 2002
Identification: Pennant number: F96
Motto:
Deo Adjuvante Labor Proficit
(Latin: "With God's help our labour is successful")
Nickname(s): Shiny Sheff
Fate: Sold to Chile
Name: Almirante Williams
Commissioned: 4 September 2003
Identification: Pennant number: FF-19
Status: In active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Type 22 frigate
Displacement: 5,300 tons
Length: 148.1m
Beam: 14.8m
Speed:
33 kilometres per hour (21mph) cruise
56 kilometres per hour (35mph) sprint
Complement: 250
Sensors and processing systems:
In Chilean Navy service
1 × Marconi Type 967M air/surface search
1 × ELTA EL/M-2238 air search
2 × ELTA EL/M-2221GM fire-control
Electronic warfare and decoys:
In Chilean Navy service
Terma SKWS
Armament:
In Royal Navy service
2 × 6 GWS25 Seawolf SAM Launchers
4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers
2 × Twin 30mm AA
2 × 20 mm GAM-BO1 guns
4 × 7.62mm GPMG
In Chilean Navy service
1 × Otobreda 76mm
2 × GAM-BO1 guns
4 × Harpoon
Barak 1 surface-to-air missile
Aircraft carried:
As Sheffield: Lynx Mk.8 helicopter;
As Almirante Williams: Eurocopter Dauphin helicopter