HMS Coventry (F98)
 HMS Coventry (F98) |
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Coventry |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Swan Hunter |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1984 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1986 |
| Commissioned: | 14 October 1988 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 January 2002 |
| Fate: | Sold to Romania on 14 January 2003 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,800 tons |
| Length: | 146.5 m (480 ft) |
| Beam: | 14.8 m (48 ft) |
| Draught: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 2-shaft COGOG 2 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B high-speed gas turbines (54,000 shp / 40 MW) 2 × Rolls-Royce Tyne RM1C cruise gas turbines (9,700 shp / 7.2 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33.3 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) full |
| Range: | 8,000 nm (16,000 km) |
| Complement: | 273 |
| Armament: | 2 × 6 GWS25 Sea Wolf SAM launchers 4 × 1 Exocet SSM launchers 2 × Twin 30 mm AA guns 2 × 20 mm GAM-BO1 guns 4 × 7.62 mm GPMGs |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × Lynx MK 8 helicopters |
| Career (Romania) |   |
| Name: | Regele Ferdinand |
| Namesake: | king Ferdinand of Romania |
| Laid down: | 29 March 1984 |
| Launched: | 8 April 1986 |
| Acquired: | 14 January 2003 |
| Commissioned: | 9 September 2004 |
| Fate: | in service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Type 22 frigate |
| Displacement: | 5,300 tons |
| Length: | 148.1 m |
| Beam: | 14.8 m |
| Draught: | 6.4 m |
| Propulsion: | 4X Rolls Royce gas turbine engines |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) cruise 30 knots (56 km/h) sprint |
| Range: | 4500nm |
| Complement: | 250 |
| Armament: | 76/62 Oto Melara Super-Rapid gun |
| Aircraft carried: | IAR-330 Puma Naval |
HMS Coventry (F98) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally intended to be named Boadicea but was named Coventry in honour of the previous Coventry (D118), a Type 42 destroyer sunk in the Falklands War.
It was purchased from the United Kingdom by the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003, and renamed Regele Ferdinand (King Ferdinand) after Ferdinand I of Romania. The ship was handed over to Romania on 19 August 2004, and underwent sea trials at the same time. Regele Ferdinand was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on 9 September 2004, and is the current flagship of the Romanian Navy. There has since been some controversy over the price at which she was bought.[1]
On 22 March 2011, Romanian President Traian Băsescu said, after a CSAT meeting, that Romania will send the frigate Regele Ferdinand with 205 mariners and two officers on board to enforce an arms embargo in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of the 2011 military intervention in Libya.[2]
[edit] See also
- Regele Ferdinand class, a World War II-era namesake
- Romanian Naval Forces
[edit] References
- ^ Leigh, David; Evans, Rob (13 June 2006). "We paid three times too much for UK frigates, Romania says". The Guardian: pp. 6. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jun/13/armstrade.bae. Retrieved September 26, 2011.
- ^ "Traian Basescu: Romania va trimite fregata Regele Ferdinand cu 205 militari in Mediterana pentru operatiuni de blocare a oricarei nave suspecte ca transporta armament". HotNews.ro. 22 March 2011. http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-politic-8423876-traian-basescu-sustine-declaratie-presa-ora-21-00-dupa-sedinta-csat.htm. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
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