Sheffield 1988

TYNE BUILT SHIPS

A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built

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Name:	SHEFFIELD
Type:	Frigate
Keel:	29/03/1984
Launched:	26/03/1986
Completed:	26/07/1988
Builder:	Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd
Yard:	Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number:	123
Dimensions:	4800disp, 146.5 x 14.8 x 6.4(draft)metres
Engines:	2 x Olympus gas turbines, 2 x Tyne gas turbines, 54600shp & 9700shp
Engines by:	Rolls-Royce Plc
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 30.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	2 x 6 x Sea Wolf Anti-Air missiles, 4 x 1 x Exocet Anti-Ship missiles,
	2 x 2 x Mk46 Anti-Sub torpedoes, 2 x 40mm guns, 2 x Helicopters;
	(2008: 1 x 76mm QF, 2 x 1 20mm QF guns; 8 x Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles,
	2 x Barak Anti-Air missiles, 2 x 3 x 324mm torpedoes, 1 x Helicopter)
History:
26/07/1988	British Royal Navy
05/09/2003	Government of Chile; renamed ALMIRANTE WILLIAMS
	In service

Comments:	Member of the Type 22 (Batch 2) Class of frigates
	Intended to be named BRUISER but renamed to commemorate the Type 42 destroyer
	2016: In service

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