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TYNE BUILT SHIPS

A history of Tyne shipbuilders and the ships that they built

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Name:	WESTMINSTER
Type:	Frigate
Keel:	18/01/1991
Launched:	04/02/1992
Completed:	13/05/1994
Builder:	Swan Hunter Ltd
Yard:	Wallsend
Yard Number:	135
Dimensions:	4900disp, 133.0 x 16.1 x 7.3(draft)metres
Engines:	2 x Electric motors, 2 x Gas turbines, 31100shp
Engines by:	GEC electric motors & Rolls-Royce Spey gas turbines
Propulsion:	2 x Screws, 28.0knots
Construction:	Steel
Armament:	32 x Sea Wolf Anti-Air missiles, 2 x 4 x Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles,
	2 x 2 x Stingray Anti-Sub torpedoes, 1 x 4.5ins gun, 1 x Helicopter
History:
13/05/1994	British Royal Navy
	No later history

Comments:	Member of the Type 23 or Duke Class of frigates. Allocated pennant F237
	2016: In service

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