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HMS Brilliant (F90)
HMS Brilliant was a Batch 1 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was named under the original convention that all Type 22s would bear ‘B’ names following the ‘A’ names of the Type 21 frigates; this policy was revised after the Falklands War to commemorate the destroyers Sheffield and Coventry, both sunk during the War, while the yet‑to‑be‑laid Bloodhound was renamed HMS London (F95).
Conceived as a specialist anti‑submarine escort, she combined high speed with an advanced sonar suite and a flight deck for Westland Lynx helicopters. Ordered in February 1976, laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and launched in May 1978, her construction cost was ~£110 million.
She was decommissioned from Royal Navy service in 1996, sold to the Brazilian Navy on 31 August 1996, where she was renamed Dodsworth. Dodsworth was sold for scrap and broken up at Aliağa, Turkey, during July 2012.
Brilliant took part in the only armed ship-to-ship engagement of the Falklands War, when she and HMS Yarmouth chased the Argentine coaster ARA Monsunen, in the Battle of Seal Cove.
Brilliant was part of the task force that took part in the Falklands War, with Captain John Coward in command. She sailed south with two WE.177A nuclear depth charges on board, to avoid complications arising from the Treaty of Tlatelolco, these were transferred to RFA Fort Austin on 16 April 1982.
Brilliant was assigned to Operation Paraquet, the effort to retake the island of South Georgia. On 25 April at 08:55, the submarine Santa Fe was located by HMS Antrims Wessex helicopter and engaged with depth charges. One charge bounced off the boat's deck and exploded alongside, rupturing the port ballast tank and piercing an external fuel tank. Now unable to dive Santa Fe reversed course towards Grytviken.
Brilliant launched her Lynx, which dropped a Mk 46 torpedo, but as the weapon was configured for a submerged submarine it passed underneath its target, the Lynx then strafed the submarine with its pintle-mounted 7.62mm Machine Gun.
Wasp helicopters from HMS Plymouth and HMS Endurance fired AS-12 air-to-surface missiles, and Santa Fe retreated back to Grytviken and was abandoned.
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HMS Brilliant (F90)
HMS Brilliant was a Batch 1 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was named under the original convention that all Type 22s would bear ‘B’ names following the ‘A’ names of the Type 21 frigates; this policy was revised after the Falklands War to commemorate the destroyers Sheffield and Coventry, both sunk during the War, while the yet‑to‑be‑laid Bloodhound was renamed HMS London (F95).
Conceived as a specialist anti‑submarine escort, she combined high speed with an advanced sonar suite and a flight deck for Westland Lynx helicopters. Ordered in February 1976, laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun and launched in May 1978, her construction cost was ~£110 million.
She was decommissioned from Royal Navy service in 1996, sold to the Brazilian Navy on 31 August 1996, where she was renamed Dodsworth. Dodsworth was sold for scrap and broken up at Aliağa, Turkey, during July 2012.
Brilliant took part in the only armed ship-to-ship engagement of the Falklands War, when she and HMS Yarmouth chased the Argentine coaster ARA Monsunen, in the Battle of Seal Cove.
Brilliant was part of the task force that took part in the Falklands War, with Captain John Coward in command. She sailed south with two WE.177A nuclear depth charges on board, to avoid complications arising from the Treaty of Tlatelolco, these were transferred to RFA Fort Austin on 16 April 1982.
Brilliant was assigned to Operation Paraquet, the effort to retake the island of South Georgia. On 25 April at 08:55, the submarine Santa Fe was located by HMS Antrims Wessex helicopter and engaged with depth charges. One charge bounced off the boat's deck and exploded alongside, rupturing the port ballast tank and piercing an external fuel tank. Now unable to dive Santa Fe reversed course towards Grytviken.
Brilliant launched her Lynx, which dropped a Mk 46 torpedo, but as the weapon was configured for a submerged submarine it passed underneath its target, the Lynx then strafed the submarine with its pintle-mounted 7.62mm Machine Gun.
Wasp helicopters from HMS Plymouth and HMS Endurance fired AS-12 air-to-surface missiles, and Santa Fe retreated back to Grytviken and was abandoned.
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