HMS Ariadne (F72)
HMS Ariadne | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Ariadne |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Yarrow Shipbuilders |
| Laid down | 1 November 1969 |
| Launched | 10 September 1971 |
| Commissioned | 10 February 1973 |
| Decommissioned | May 1992 |
| Identification | Pennant number: F72 |
| Fate | Sold to Chile, 1992 |
| Chile | |
| Name | General Baquedano |
| Namesake | Manuel Baquedano |
| Operator | Chilean Navy |
| Commissioned | 1992 |
| Decommissioned | December 1998 |
| Fate | Sunk as target in 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Leander-class frigate |
| Displacement | 3,200 long tons (3,251 t) full load |
| Length | 113.4 m (372 ft) |
| Beam | 12.5 m (41 ft) |
| Draught | 5.8 m (19 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplying steam to two sets of White-English Electric double-reduction geared turbines to two shafts |
| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h) |
| Range | 4,600 nautical miles (8,500 km) at 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 223 |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Westland Wasp helicopter |
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HMS Ariadne was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1971, was sold to Chile in 1992 and sunk as a target hulk in 2004.